Py2K wishes

[Paul Prescod]

I would love it if one of my Python nits was corrected in Python 2
whenever that comes about. Consider the keywords "def" and "class"

"class": noun, taken from Marxist literature, as in "class war" and
"history class"

"def": adjective, taken from urban slang as in "def comedy jam"

Kidding aside, "class" is a noun and "def" is an abbreviation for a
verb. Furthermore, "def" is way too generic. Python has class
definitions and function definitions. The keywords should be
"func"/"function" and "class". 

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The syntax for selecting base classes is un-Pythonic in the sense that
it is not clearly obvious what is going on. Java's "extends" keyword is
more Pythonic (if only the rest of Java was!).

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Python has an efficient multi-level dispatching mechanism that is used
as the basis for name lookup and attribute lookup. The implementation of
this mechanism should be made availab le to the programmer. I should be
able to make a proxy object something like this:

class Proxy:
	def __init__ ( self, fallback ):
		__fallback__=fallback

a = Proxy( someObject )

This would imply the following:

class SomeClass( someParentClass ): pass

assert SomeClass.__fallback__ == someParentClass
assert SomeClass().__fallback__ == SomeClass.__fallback__

 Paul Prescod