function attributes are like function objects

[Christian Tanzer]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at effbot.org> wrote:

> and I doubt many people would notice if __doc__ were made
> readonly...

Well, I'm not many but I certainly would notice (and complain, too).

> advantages:
> + works with pre-2.1 python
> + requires one dictionary per class instead of one
>   per method

- requires one dictionary per type of method attribute.

Worse, it is a FORTRANique [*] instead of a pythonic solution. Instead
of encapsulating all information about an object in one place,
corresponding attributes of different objects are bundled up together.
For a single method attribute, it doesn't matter much but if several
attributes are used per method it sucks.

[*] (read FORTRAN IV or FORTRAN 77) 

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