[Python-ideas] descriptors outside of classes

[Michael Foord]

On 30 March 2011 22:13, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> Eric Snow wrote:
>
>> I was just thinking along those same lines.  Sounds like twisted already
>> does it.  Does it amount to using a custom __import__?
>>
>
> I don't know what Twisted does,


I'm pretty sure it creates a module subclass that forwards all attribute
access to the real module and inserts itself into sys.modules in place of
the "real" module. Pretty evil really. :-)

I may be mistaken about this, it is based off my memory of a previous
discussion.

Michael



> but I was thinking of
> an attribute called __moduleclass__ that works a bit
> like the old __metaclass__ attribute.
>
> Then you could do
>
> class __moduleclass__:
>
>   ... descriptor definitions go here ...
>
>
> --
> Greg
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