Abuse of the object-nature of functions?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Peter Otten wrote:

> You would normally expect that you can turn off a flag by setting it to
> False instead of deleting it -- which is also how the OP's code works. So I
> would prefer
>
> assertion = getattr(callable, "is_assertion", False)

agreed (but note that the OP used a decorator to set the attribute, so you could
consider it an implementation detail...)

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