[Python-Dev] Object customization (was: Arbitrary attributes on funcs and methods)

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> Yes, of course people will use it to get the effect of function
    >> statics.  OK by me.  People do the same thing today with class data
    >> attributes (i.e., to

    AMK> Wait, the attributes added to a function are visible inside the
    AMK> function?  (I haven't looked that closely at the patch?)

No, they aren't.  There is no change of Python's scoping rules using Barry's
function attributes patch.  In fact, they are *only* available to the
function itself via the function's name in the module globals.  That's why
Fredrik's "eff, bot = bot, eff" trick worked as it did.

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