[Python-Dev] Namespaces (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:58:23 -0500

On Sun, Mar 31, 2002, Tim Peters wrote:

Names always live in the local, global or builtin namespaces.

Well, no. First-level names, yes, but each object itself is a namespace, so every name will be bound to an object that can contain names. To use my favorite example:

def f():
    pass

f.permissions = 'author'

(I'm being picky about this because I'm in the middle of writing my PyPerl tutorial for OSCON, and I think this is one of the areas that really needs to be accurate -- so if I'm wrong, I want to know about it.)

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