
Aug. 10, 2004
3:19 p.m.
Nick Bastin wrote:
On Aug 9, 2004, at 6:16 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
James Y Knight wrote:
IMO classes ought to actually appear in __builtin__ if they claim they are defined there. Doing otherwise breaks reflection, as you have to add a special case for these class names to use the appropriate object from the types module instead. Thoughts?
I agree.
I think this should stand for functions as well. help() is a good example. It's a bit confusing for newbies that help.__module__ is 'site', but 'site' isn't in their local namespace.
Yup. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:jim@zope.com Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org