New submission from Antoine Pitrou: There are use cases for setting a cell value. One such use case is for (un)pickling recursive closures (see heroic workaround here: https://github.com/cloudpipe/cloudpickle/pull/90/files#diff-d2a3618afedd4e124c532151eedbae09R74 ). Other use cases may include tinkering around and general education value.
There also doesn't seem to be, AFAICS, any counter-indication to being able to do so. It's already possible in C using PyCell_Set(), which is a public API. It just lacks an API in Python land. For example `cell_contents` could become a read/write property... ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 294554 nosy: benjamin.peterson, gvanrossum, ncoghlan, pitrou, rhettinger priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Allow setting cell value type: enhancement versions: Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30486> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
