The Industry choice

[Kent Johnson]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Stefan Axelsson <crap1234 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Yes, ignoring most of the debate about static vs. dynamic typing, I've
>>>also longed for 'use strict'.
>>
>>You can use __slots__ to get the effect you're after.  Well, sort of; it
>>only works for instance variables, not locals.  And the gurus will argue
>>that __slots__ wasn't intended for that, so you shouldn't do it.
> 
> 
> There's a simple, excellent recipe by Michele Simionato, on both the
> online and forthcoming 2nd edition printed Cookbook, showing how to do
> that the right way -- with __setattr__ -- rather than with __slots__ .

The recipe is here (it took me a few minutes to find it, I found the title misleading):
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/252158

Kent