function attributes are like function objects
Michael Hudson
mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Thu Feb 1 07:26:50 EST 2001
Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
> Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> >
> > It didn't really
> > seem like they were missing so much as it seemed like they would act
> > more like everything else now...
>
> Everything? What about lists, dicts, tuples, file
> objects...?
>
> What's so special about functions that we need to
> be able to plonk arbitrary attributes on them, but
> not any other builtin types?
The fact that people were using the one attribute they could get at
(__doc__) for things far from its original purpose?
Cheers,
M.
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