On 11/28/2009 3:08 PM, The Music Guy wrote:
As for your code, I haven't seen it, so it would be hard for me to say exactly how the new syntax would come into play. What I can tell you, however, is that the parts of your code that would use it would probably be easier to read and change to anyone with a firm grasp of the proposed syntax.
Isn't this much easier to read and grasp? obj.d["my_%s" % foo] += 3 doesn't need new syntax as well.
Even if this sort of thing only needed to happen a few times in an entire project, the project as a whole could only benefit from it. My projects rely on a lot of metaclassing for the automatic generation of properties and methods, which saves tremendous amounts of coding.
If you use it a lot, it is likely 1) you have abused class syntax for what should have been a dict or 2) what you need is to override __getattr__/__getattribute__ and __setattr__
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