empty classes as c structs?

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Thu Feb 10 12:29:38 EST 2005


Alex Martelli wrote:
> Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>I like the idea of chain, though, so I'll probably add the class with
>>just __init__ and __getattribute__ to the current implementation.  I'm
>>willing to be persuaded, of course, but for the moment, since I can see
>>a few different options, I'm refusing the temptation to guess on the 
>>"most natural" behavior for __delattr__ and __setattr__...  =)
> 
> 
> That's probably best in terms of API.  Not too sure about the
> implementation (why wouldn't __getattr__ suffice, holding the bunches in
> an attribute with a magicname?) but that's a secondary issue.

Yeah, I had it written with __getattr__ at first...  Not sure why I 
switched over... ;)  I'll probably switch it back.

Steve



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