[Python-Dev] PEP 549: Instance Properties (aka: module properties)

[Ivan Levkivskyi]

(sorry for obvious mistakes in the example in previous e-mail)

On 14 September 2017 at 21:08, Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivskyi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 14 September 2017 at 01:13, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> That last sentence is a key observation. Do we even know whether there
>> are (non-toy) things that you can do *in principle* with __class__
>> assignment but which are too slow *in practice* to bother? And if yes, is
>> __getattr__ fast enough? @property?
>>
>>
> I myself have never implemented deprecation warnings management nor lazy
> loading,
> so it is hard to say if __class__ assignment is fast enough. For me it is
> more combination
> of three factors:
>
> * modest performance improvement
> * some people might find __getattr__ clearer than __class__ assignment
> * this would be consistent with how stubs work
>
>
>> IMO we're still looking for applications.
>>
>>
> How about this
>
> def allow_forward_references(*allowed):
>     caller_globals = sys._getframe().__globals__
>     def typing_getattr(name):
>         if name in allowed:
>             return name
>         raise AttributeError(...)
>     caller_globals.__getattr__ = typing_getattr
>
> from typing_extensions import allow_forward_references
> allow_forward_references('Vertex', 'Edge')
>
> T = TypeVar('T', bound=Edge)
>
> class Vertex(List[Edge]):
>     def copy(self: T) -> T:
>         ...
>
> class Edge:
>     ends: Tuple[Vertex, Vertex]
>     ...
>
> Look mum, no quotes! :-)
>
> --
> Ivan
>
>
>
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