[Python-Dev] Arbitrary attributes on funcs and methods

[bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us]

>>>>> "JH" == Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@cnri.reston.va.us> writes:

    JH> Fred and I were just talking, and he observed that a variant
    JH> of Python that included a syntactic mechanism to specify more
    JH> than one attribute (effectively, a multiple doc string syntax)
    JH> might be less objectionable than setting arbitrary attributes
    JH> at runtime.  Neither of us could imagine just what that syntax
    JH> would be.

So it's the writability of the attributes that bothers you?  Maybe we
need WORM-attrs? :)

-Barry