[Python-Dev] Arbitrary attributes on funcs and methods

[Christian Tismer]

bwarsaw@cnri.reston.va.us wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "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? :)

Why don't you just use WORM programming style.

Write it once (into the CVS) and get many complaints :-)

chris

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