[Python-Dev] properties on modules?
Samuele Pedroni
pedronis@bluewin.ch
Mon, 13 Jan 2003 19:17:34 +0100
From: "Neil Schemenauer" <nas@python.ca>
> It would be really cool if this worked:
>
> import time
> now = property(lambda m: time.time())
>
> Obviously a silly example but I hope the idea is clear. Is there a
> reason this couldn't be made to work?
>
it does not work any less than:
>>> import time
>>> class C(object): pass
...
>>> c=C()
>>> c.new=property(lambda o: time.time())
>>> c.new
<property object at 0x00796FE0>
modules are instances of a types, not types.
So the issue is about instance-level property apart the module thing details.