[Python-Dev] Object customization (was: Arbitrary attributes on funcs and methods)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Tim Peters wrote:
> [Gordon McMillan]
> > ...
> > Or are you saying that if functions have attributes, people will
> > all of a sudden expect that function locals will have initialized
> > and maintained state?
>=20
> I expect that they'll expect exactly what happens in JavaScript, which
> supports function attributes too, and where it's often used as a
> nicer-than-globals way to get the effect of C-like mutable statics
> (conceptually) local to the function.

so it's no longer an experimental feature, it's a "static variables"
thing?

umm.   I had nearly changed my mind to a "okay, if you insist +1",
but now it's back to -1 again.  maybe in Py3K...

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