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

[Paul Rubin]

Bruno Desthuilliers <bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr> writes:
> > We're not talking about libraries here.
> 
> Yes we are. If the default is "non-dynamic", then a class author is in
> charge of explicitely allowing it when *he* see fits.

Oh, I see what you mean, the standard libraries would be affected if
the language default were to tone down the dynamism.  True.

> As long as it's up to the *user* to choose, that's ok. Your "@dynamic"
> class decorator doesn't have the same implications.

Well, you could use it on library classes too:

   from library import Libclass
   Libclass = dynamic(Libclass)
   ...

would be like using the decorator on the class definition.