[Python-Dev] Module properties for C modules

Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Thu May 1 22:20:56 CEST 2008


Guido van Rossum schrieb:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
>> Guido van Rossum schrieb:
>>
>>> But wouldn't this mean that those properties would no longer be
>>  > available in the module's __dict__?
>>
>>  Correct. Module properties would behave exactly like instance
>>  properties. They don't appear on the instance's __dict__ attribute, too.
>>
>>  By the way I was astonished that the vars() function dones't show
>>  properties but dir() does list them.
> 
> "Astonished" sounds stronger than you probably meant it. :-)

Slightly :)

What's your opinion on the module properties idea? Do you still like it
although the property values won't show up in __dict__?

Christian




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