[Python-Dev] Meta-reflections (original) (raw)

Samuele Pedroni pedroni@inf.ethz.ch
Thu, 21 Feb 2002 22:13:57 +0100

[Kevin Jacobs] > ... > I have a collection of about ~8 more bugs that is expending as I > grow my test suite. Before I spray all of them onto SF, I want > to hear from Guido, since some of my "bugs" are potentially subjective.

The best way to hear from Guido is to post bugs, and suspected bugs, to SourceForge, one bug per report. There's so much verbiage about this now on Python-Dev that I doubt he'll ever be able to make time to catch up with it when he returns. A great advantage of a good bug report is that it's focused and brief.

It's very true.

Slots were definitely intended as a memory optimization, and the ways in which they don't act like "regular old attributes" are at best warts.

I see, but it seems that the only way to coherently and transparently remove the warts implies that the dict of a new-style class instance with slots should be tied with the instance and cannot be anymore a vanilla dict. Something only Guido can rule about.

some-more-verbiage-ly y'rs - Samuele.