[Python-Dev] just say no...

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

M.-A. Lemburg writes:
 > FYI, there's mxProxy which implements a flavor of them. Look
 > in the standard places for mx stuff ;-)

  Yes, but still not in the core.  So we have two general examples
(vrefs and mxProxy) and there's WeakDict (or something like that).  I
think there really needs to be a core facility for this.  There are a
lot of users (including myself) who think that things are far less
useful if they're not in the core.  (No, I'm not saying that
everything should be in the core, or even that it needs a lot more
stuff.  I just don't want to be writing code that requires a lot of
separate packages to be installed.  At least not until we can tell an
installation tool to "install this and everything it depends on." ;)


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.	     <fdrake@acm.org>
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