[Python-Dev] Making proxy types easier to write and maintain
Paul Moore
p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 21:15:15 CET 2014
On 19 March 2014 18:46, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> In http://bugs.python.org/issue19359#msg213530 I proposed to introduce a "proxy
> protocol" (__proxy__ / tp_proxy) that would be used as a fallback by
> _PyObject_LookupSpecial to fetch the lookup target, i.e.:
>
> def _PyObject_LookupSpecial(obj, name):
> tp = type(obj)
> try:
> return getattr(tp, name)
> except AttributeError:
> return getattr(tp.tp_proxy(), name)
>
> What do you think?
Would that increase the size of type objects? Would that matter?
(There's a similar question that came up in the thread about adding
the @ operator over on python-ideas, which is what made me think of
it...)
Paul
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