Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

Bruno Desthuilliers bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid
Wed Jan 14 11:51:17 EST 2009


Paul Rubin a écrit :
> Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid> writes:
>>> If the programmer could
>>> somehow disallow it in certain classes,
>> Already possible - you just have to provide your own implementation of
>> __setattr__.
> 
> Part of the idea of non-dynamic attribute sets is to make the program
> run faster, not slower.

Russ argument was about "good engineering", not about raw perfs. FWIW, 
_you_ may be willing to trade dynamism for raw perfs, but there are 
probably some people here that won't agree.



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