[Python-Dev] Explicit Lexical Scoping (pre-PEP?) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Jul 11 11:44:36 CEST 2006


Fuzzyman wrote:

I've often found it a nuisance that you can't instantiate an 'object', to use as a mutable 'namespace', but instead have to define an arbitrary empty class.

What happened to the 'namespace' proposal ?

The code and the pre-PEP [1] are still out there, but Carlos, Steve and I all got distracted by other things. It really needs to go back to c.l.p to thrash out some of the name collision prblems (e.g. should all access to methods, even special methods, be via type(x)?).

Cheers, Nick.

[1] http://namespace.python-hosting.com/wiki/NamespacePep

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