On Sat, 16 Sept 2023 at 19:48, Jeff Allen <ja...@farowl.co.uk> wrote: > It needs language (parser) support because it does what you identified early > on: "take whatever is given and put it in quotes", where "whatever is given" > is the text of the expression only available at run-time. >
I didn't say "and put it in quotes". I said "return the text string unchanged". This is, fundamentally, a problem of an editing tool. Teach the tool that a string literal inside nameof() should be parsed for variables. This is no harder than taking the program source and parsing it for variables - in fact, it's the exact same thing, just done a second time. I have done exactly this sort of parsing, using the Python ast module. It's not difficult. ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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/IRT4UNFBKPEP6U2PENVGQEAQQQ3WSBW2/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
