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

[Paul Prescod]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> 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...

I think that we get 95% of the benefit without any of the "dangers"
(though I don't agree with the arguments against) if we allow the
attachment of properties only at compile time and disallow mutation of
them at runtime. That will allow Spark, EventDOM, multi-lingual
docstrings etc., but disallow static variables. I'm not agreeing that
using function properties as static variables is a bad thing...I'm just
saying that we might be able to agree on a less powerful mechanism and
then revisit the more general one in Py3K.

Let's not forget that Py3K is going to be a very hard exercise in trying
to combine everyone's ideas "all at once". Experience gained now is
golden. We should probably be more amenable to "experimental ideas" now
-- secure in the knowledge that they can be killed off in Py3K. If we
put ideas we are not 100% comfortable with in Py3K we will be stuck with
them forever.

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