private variables/methods

Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 12 18:37:45 EDT 2003


Terry Reedy wrote:
   ...
> I believe it would be easily possible to bind a module to
> <module>.__self__ or <module>. __module__ at the same time
> <module>__name__, .__file__, and .__doc__ are.  ('Current' is no more

Yes, it would (a tiny patch to the C code).

> needed for __module__ than for the other vars.)  If their were use
> cases for self-access nearly as good as those for the others, and not
> just the cuteness factor, I would support the addition.  I would guess

My use case is: deprecating the global statement.


Alex





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