[Python-ideas] Add a dict with the attribute access capability

[Greg Ewing]

Ivan Pozdeev via Python-ideas wrote:
> I needed to hold an external function 
> reference in an object instance (if I assigned it to an attribute, it 
> was converted into an instance method).

No, that only happens to functions stored in *class* attributes,
not instance attributes.

 >>> class A:
...    pass
...
 >>> a = A()
 >>>
 >>> def f():
...    print("I'm just a function")
...
 >>> a.x = f
 >>> a.x()
I'm just a function

-- 
Greg