function v. method

[danielx]

Leif K-Brooks wrote:
> danielx wrote:
> > This is still a little bit of magic, which gets me thinking again about
> > the stuff I self-censored. Since the dot syntax does something special
> > and unexpected in my case, why not use some more dot-magic to implement
> > privates? Privates don't have to be entirely absent from Klass.__dict__
> > (which would make Python not introspective); they can just be invisible
> > when using the dot-syntax.
>
> You can do this now, kind of:
>
>  >>> class Foo(object):
> ...  x = property()
> ...  def doStuffWithX(self):
> ...   self.__dict__['x'] = 123
> ...   print self.__dict__['x']
> ...
>  >>> bar = Foo()
>  >>> bar.doStuffWithX()
> 123
>  >>> bar.x
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> AttributeError: unreadable attribute
>
> If you're proposing that self.x and bar.x should give different results,
> then that's quite a bit more magic than property() and methods use. They

Yes, I had not considered that very carefully...

> both use the descriptor API; for more information on that, read
> <http://python.org/download/releases/2.2.3/descrintro/>.

Let me finish reading that before I get back to your point.