April 6, 2002
3:33 a.m.
barry wrote:
I'm curious why setting an attribute isn't a name binding operation? Are you binding the object to the attribute name in the object's attribute namespace? Since that maps to a setting in an __dict__ (usually), what /would/ you call it?
syntactic sugar? A = 1 binds 1 to the name "A" A.B = 1 calls A.__setattr__("B", 1) A["B"] = 1 calls A.__setitem__("B", 1) it's pretty clear that the first form differs from the others, but what's the difference between the second and the third form? or are all three name binding operations? </F>