[Python-Dev] Duck-typing self (original) (raw)

Sebastian Rittau srittau at jroger.in-berlin.de
Sat Feb 28 00:57:20 CET 2009


On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:32:09PM +0100, Sebastian Rittau wrote:

I am curious why the following will not work in Python:

class foo(object): def bar(self): print self.attr class duck(object): attr = 3.14 foo.bar(duck())

Thanks to everybody who has responded on-list or in private. Actually Guido blogged about this design decision (among other things) in his latest post to the "The History of Python" blog: <http://tinyurl.com/c6qya5>.



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