[Python-Dev] PyObject_SetAttr - is it the only way types should set attributes?

[Skip Montanaro]

In thinking about the implementation of TRACK_GLOBAL some more, I'm trying
to figure out where object updating is going to take place.  Is
PyObject_GenericSetAttr the only way C-based objects should set attributes?
If so, that would be a central place to provide this functionality.
Otherwise, I fear that a lot of C code will have to be twiddled to provide
this functionality.

I worry especially about third-party extension modules.  Accordingly, I took
a look at

    http://www.python.org/doc/ext/dnt-type-methods.html

Unfortunately, that section seems to be truncated (in the TeX source as
well).  I filed a bug report:

    http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=451217&group_id=5470&atid=105470

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