[Python-ideas] JavaScript-Style Object Creation in Python (using a constructor function instead of a class to create objects)

[Eric V. Smith]

On 5/18/17 2:26 PM, Sven R. Kunze wrote:
> On 17.05.2017 23:29, Ivan Levkivskyi wrote:
>> On 17 May 2017 at 20:09, Sven R. Kunze <srkunze at mail.de
>> <mailto:srkunze at mail.de>> wrote:
>>
>>     class Foo(dictlike, tuplelike, simpleobject):
>>         attribute1: User
>>         attribute2: Blog
>>         attribute3: list
>>
>>          def __my_dunder__(self):
>>             ...
>>
>>
>> As I understand this is more or less what is proposed,
>
> Are you sure? Could you point me to the relevant messages where mixins
> are mentioned as a key part of the proposal? All I could find are
> message using the @decorator syntaxes.
>
> We've been working with mixins successfully for years now and I can tell
> you that it's "just" a clever way of refactoring existing code in order
> to make it more accessible to other modules *based on use-cases*.
>
>
> So, the best person to tell what pieces to factor out would be Stephan
> using his 4-point list.
> And of course other people using NamedTuple but frequently refactoring
> to "attr" or own class because NamedTuple just is too much (defines too
> much implicitly).

Could you point me to this 4-point list of Stephan's? I couldn't find 
anything in the archive that you might be referring to.

Eric.