Python dynamic attribute creation

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.2300.1277754755.32709.python-list at python.org>,
Michael Torrie  <torriem at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 06/27/2010 11:58 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
>>
>> To say you can't really know "much about" OOP without knowing "much 
>> about" Smalltalk seems basically, well, wrong.
>
>True.  But you can't really criticize a language's implementation of OOP
>without a good understanding of the "pure" OO language.  For example, in
>Smalltalk If/Then statements are actually methods of Boolean objects.
>>From a certain point of view that's extremely appealing (consistent,
>anyway).  Almost functional in nature.  They are not implemented this
>way in Python, so that's one thing you could argue is not OO about Python.

Python is in no way a pure OOP language.  (I assume you're aware of this,
but your phrasing leaves that in doubt.)
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