Python component model

[Fredrik Lundh]

Edward Diener No Spam wrote:

> There's no doubt that Python's excellent introspection mechanism allows
> an outside RAD-like tool to inspect the workings of any Python object.
> But that does not make it a component model in my original use of the
> term on this thread. A RAD tool needs to know what properties and events
> within a class can be manipulated visually, and it needs to be able to
> serialize those properties and events so that they are set at run-time
> automatically once an object is created.

external serialization was not part of your original definition.

I think you have to be a *lot* more concrete here.  repeatedly referring to
"some kind of hypothetical property (that isn't a property)" and "some kind
of hypothetical event (that isn't a public method)" and "some kind of hypo-
thetical RAD tool" won't get you anywhere.

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