[IPython-dev] Small config puzzle
Brian Granger
ellisonbg at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 19:35:28 EDT 2012
Doing so will add 1) docuemenation and 2) typing. Putting things into
dicts removes many of the benefits of our config system.
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Brian Granger <ellisonbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that given our config system, the right solution is to move
> the keys of rc to be top-level config attributes.
>
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Min RK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Overridden. The only thing you can do in config is simple attribute assignment. It doesn't do anything fancy, so c.InlineBackend.rc = foo is the same as doing the actual assignment to the real object.
>>>
>>> I don't know if you recall, but we discussed an API in your office to address this sort of thing for container traits, where we had an idea like:
>>>
>>> c.InlineBackend._rc_update = dict(foo=bar)
>>>
>>> for dicts or
>>>
>>> c.Foo._bar_extend = [more, entries]
>>>
>>> for lists.
>>
>> Yup, now I remember, and it might have been triggered by me trying to
>> mess around with this same guy. Though I still worry that it may be a
>> lot of special-case knowledge to expect users to remember... I feel
>> like we haven't quite hit completely the sweet spot with the api for
>> this part (though by and large it works very well, given how complex
>> the problem it's faced with is).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> f
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Brian E. Granger
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