any interest in type-scoped static constants?

[Paul Miller]

> Why do you need a PEP when you can implement it for any extension you
> need. Just put a dictionary in the type and using type.getattr to look
> stuff up in your dictionary.

Correct me if I am wrong, but do you not need an *object* of the type
before you can call getattr on it? 

In other words, I would have to do this:

	constant_value = Point().CONSTANT_VALUE

Which would first CREATE an object of that type, then call its getattr()
method where I can look at the argument. I want to avoid creating
objects just to get a constant which is associated with the TYPE and not
the object.