[Python-Dev] PEP 447: add type.__locallookup__
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Fri Sep 13 01:08:21 CEST 2013
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 04:42:39PM +0200, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> I don't particularly like __locallookup__ either, but haven't found a
> better name yet. "__lookup_in_class__" was the best alternative I
> could come up with, and that feels different than other special
> methods. The name in the PEP is more or less derived from
> _PyType_Lookup, with "local" meaning "only in this class, don't
> recurse in the rest of the MRO".
How about __typelookup__ ? Surely that's the obvious name to derive from
_PyType_Lookup :-)
--
Steven
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