[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Betas today - I hope (original) (raw)

Jim Jewett jimjjewett at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 20:11:14 CEST 2008

On 6/12/08, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

documentation patch for the language reference ... following categories: ...

2. Method lookup MAY bypass getattribute, shadowing the attribute in the instance dictionary MAY have ill effects. (slots such as enter and exit that are looked up via normal attribute lookup in CPython will fit into this category)

Should this category really be enumerated?

I thought that was the default meaning of name, so the real clarification is:

(1) Requiring that the specific names in category 1 MUST be treated this way.

(2) Mentioning * and listing any known exceptions. (Can "next" be treated this way despite the lack of *? Is it forbidden to treat context this way?)

-jJ

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