Guenther, It is best not to suggest a drastic fix for a more limited problem.
As a general rule, many programming languages only have a pointer concept even vaguely along the lines you want for garbage collection purposes. An area of memory may have stored alongside it how many other things point at it but not which ones. As long as it is decremented when a pointer leaves, it works. If you want to design objects that can store additional info when invoked properly, go for it. No change to python would be needed. In your example, you could create an object initialized by cube([10,1,1], "a") which now might remember that something called "a" once pointed at it. But you then have to figure out how to ensure than when "a" is deleted or reset or goes out of the current environment, that things are properly updated. I am not so sure how easy it would be to change the language so it pays attention to what it is giving a pointer too and then goes and tells ... -----Original Message----- From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+avi.e.gross=gmail....@python.org> On Behalf Of Guenther Sohler via Python-list Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2024 2:15 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: extend behaviour of assignment operator Hi, when i run this code a = cube([10,1,1]) b = a i'd like to extend the behaviour of the assignment operator a shall not only contain the cube, but the cube shall also know which variable name it was assigned to, lately. I'd like to use that for improved user interaction. effective code should be: a=cube([10,1,1]) a.name='a' b=a b.name='b' # i am aware that a.name also changes can decorators also be used with assignment operators ? thank you for your hints -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
