function attributes are like function objects

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GG" == Geoffrey Gerrietts <geoff at homegain.com> writes:

    GG> Or are function attributes pretty much accessible only to
    GG> those who know the function by name?

Well, if you have the function passed to you, then you don't need to
know what it's called.  You just access the attribute.

def publish(func):
    try:
	if func.publish:
	    print func()
    except AttributeError:
        log('Non-conforming function given to publish(): %s' % func)

-Barry