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

[Ken Manheimer]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> Can I get at least a +0? :)

I want function attributes.  (There are all sorts of occasions i need cues
to classify functions for executives that map and apply them, and this
seems like the perfect way to couple that information with the
object.  Much nicer than having to mangle the names of the functions, or
create some external registry with the classifications.)

And i think i'd want them even more if they were visible within the
function, so i could do static variables.  Why is that a bad thing?

So i guess that means i'd give a +1 for the proposal as stands, with the
understanding that you'd get *another* +1 for the additional feature -
yielding a bigger, BETTER +1.

Metadata, static vars, frameworks ... oh my!-)

(Oh, and i'd suggest up front that documentation for this feature
recommend people not use "__*__" names for their own object attributes, to
avoid collisions with eventual use of them by python.)

Ken
klm@digicool.com