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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Subject: Re: extend behaviour of assignment operator
Date: 10 Jan 2024 19:40:49 GMT
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Guenther Sohler <guenther.sohler@gmail.com> writes:
>i'd like to extend the behaviour  of the assignment operator

  The following attempt is just a proof of concept, as it will
  not handle properly all possible code. To do something similar
  in a more general way, use "import ast", parse the code into
  an AST and then search the AST for assignements and insert
  code to change the name attribute after them.

import re

class thing: pass # all things pass

code = r'''
a = thing()
print( a.name )
b = a
print( b.name )
'''

code = \
re.sub\
( r'((?:^|\n)(\s*)([\w_]+)\s*=.*(\n|$))', r'\1\2\3.name="\3"\n', code )
exec( code )