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

[Greg Stein]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 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?
> > 
> > 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?

Don't be so argumentative. Tim suggested a possible use. Not what it
really means or how it really works.

I look at it as labelling a function with metadata about that function. I
use globals or class attrs for "static" data.

Cheers,
-g

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Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/