On Oct 18, 2004, at 13:46, Josiah Carlson wrote:
Attributes may be 'generic' (untyped) or 'typed', and are stored in the order they are declared in the class statement. The value provided in the definition above is the 'default value'. Simple attributes may also be provided, but won't be type checked or kept in the original order. To read the ini file, just do this:
I think the syntax looks good, but as per a thread in python-list, you cannot discover the order of class variables by any solution (metaclass or otherwise), due to the fact that they become part of the class dictionary; which is arbitrarily unordered.
If ordering is important to a user, one could have an optional __order__ attribute that gives the list of items in-order.
That's not quite true. TypedAttribute instances and iniSection's __new__ could have serial numbers. -bob