Hans Nowak wrote:
Adam DePrince wrote:
In sort, we must preserve the ability to create an anonymous function
simply because we can do so for every other object type, and functions
are not special enough to permit this special case.
Your reasoning makes sense... lambda enables you to create a function as
part of an expression, just like other types can be part of an
expression. However, by that same reasoning, maybe classes aren't
special enough either to warrant a special case. Where's the keyword to
create an anonymous class? :-)
Well, no keyword, but you can use the type function:
py> d = dict(c=type('C', (object,), dict(spam=42)),
... d=type('D', (dict,), dict(badger=True)))
py> d['c'].spam
42
py> d['c']()
<__main__.C object at 0x063F2DD0>
Steve
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