On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:06 AM Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote:
> I think a metaclass [well, "pseudo-metaclass", to use a term I made up for > a metaclass that is not a subclass of type and/or does not return an > instance of type] would be better in this case because the resulting object > should not be a type. > but a class decorator can return, well, anything. See the example I posted having it create a module object. I really don't know that that's a good idea, but yeah, if what you want is a essentially a namespace, then you really don't want a type. Maybe just an instance of object would work though. -CHB > The reason I wanted different syntax was because I wanted to change how > the functions inside are compiled [to allow nonlocal accesses to refer to > the namespace's scope], though I think making them globals and a custom > dict subclass [possibly ChainMap, haven't checked if it does everything I > want] for globals makes this workable as a metaclass or decorator - either > one can take all of the functions and replace them with a new function with > different globals and the original function's code object. > > > > namespace Foo: > > > x=1 > > > def bar(): > > > pass > > > def baz() > > > return bar() + x > > > > That could be done with a function and a function decorator. "Proof > > left as an exercise for the reader." :-) > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/2HWZUS6G33TRBN7NINH4FJB4ROSGDLLY/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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