March 10, 2003
11:14 a.m.
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Guido van Rossum wrote:
- Which attributes are considered introspective?
Here's a preliminary description of the boundary between "introspective" and "restricted", off the top of my head: 1. The only thing you can do with a bound method is to call it (bound methods have no attributes except __doc__). 2. The following instance attributes are off limits: __class__, __dict__, __module__. That might be a reasonable start. However, there is still the problem that the established technique for storing instance-specific state in Python is to use globally- accessible data attributes instead of a limited scope. We would also need to add a safe (private) place for instances to put state. -- ?!ng