On 1/18/07, George Sakkis <gsakkis@rutgers.edu> wrote:
On 1/18/07, Jim Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com> wrote:
But he actually ones a variable that *does* keep state between calls (like a mutable default arg), but can't be overridden.
For What Its Worth, my personal opinion is that having to create an object instead of a function is annoying, but not so bad (or so frequent) that it is worth special syntax.
Function attributes fit the bill really good if writing a class is too much overhead.
Not really, because Python doesn't have the equivalent of "this". The only way for a function to access its own attributes is to hardcode a name and to assume the name will always refer to that same function object. In practice, it mostly works, but so does just using a global variable. -jJ