[Python-Dev] Early PEP draft (For Python 3000?) (original) (raw)

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 15:23:35 CEST 2005


(In http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-October/057251.html) Eyal Lotem wrote:

Name: Attribute access for all namespaces ...

global x ; x = 1 Replaced by: module.x = 1

Attribute access as an option would be nice, but might be slower.

Also note that one common use for a dict is that you don't know what keys are available; meeting this use case with attribute access would require some extra machinery, such as an iterator over attributes.

-jJ



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