Re: [Python-ideas] Add a dict with the attribute access capability

Ivan Pozdeev via Python-ideas wrote:

I needed to hold an external function reference in an object instance (if I assigned it to an attribute, it was converted into an instance method).

No, that only happens to functions stored in *class* attributes, not instance attributes.

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class A: ... pass ... a = A()

def f(): ... print("I'm just a function") ... a.x = f a.x() I'm just a function

-- Greg