[Python-Dev] Committing PEP 3155 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 09:29:06 CET 2011

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:

19.11.11 01:54, Antoine Pitrou написав(ла):

Well, the other propositions still seem worse to me. "Qualified" is reasonably accurate, and "qualname" is fairly short and convenient (I would hate to type "qualifiedname" or "qualifiedname" in full). In the same vein, we have repr which may seem weird at first sight :) What about reprname?

Antoine only mentioned 'repr' as being an abbreviation for 'representation', just as 'qualname' will be an abbreviation for 'qualified name'.

The "less ambiguous repr()" use case is just one minor aspect of the new qualified names, even if it's the most immediately visible, so using 'repr' in the attribute name would give people all sorts of wrong ideas about the scope of its utility.

Cheers, Nick.

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