[Python-ideas] Attribute Docstrings and Annotations

Hello all, I was looking into function annotations, that are to be introduced in Python3k, and I found this old message sent to this mailing list : http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2007-January/000037.html I would like to restart the discussion of attribute annotation, because in my opinion it can be a very powerful feature. I personally think about using it for SOAP message serialization, or any kind of XML serialization, the Idea would be to annotate various object attribues to be either marshaled as XML Elements or XML Attributes of the current Node that reflects the Object. Thank you, -- Ali