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

[Nick Coghlan]

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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