Lazy Attribute

[Andriy Kornatskyy]

This is very minor use case. Unlikely useful to add any checks for None, or translate one exception to the other... with pretty much the same outcome: it makes sense in objects only.

Thanks.

Andriy

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> From: rouslank at msn.com
> Subject: Re: Lazy Attribute
> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 05:12:11 -0500
> To: python-list at python.org
>
> On 11/16/2012 04:32 AM, Rouslan Korneychuk wrote:
> > On 11/16/2012 02:49 AM, Andriy Kornatskyy wrote:
> >>> If accessing the descriptor on the class object has no special
> >>> meaning, then the custom is to return the descriptor object itself, as
> >>> properties do.
> >>
> >> If I would satisfy this, I will be forced to check for None 99.9% of
> >> the use cases (it is not None, being applied to an object). Thus it
> >> behaves as designed.
> >
> > That's not true. You can use a try-except block to return the descriptor
> > object when an AttributeError is raised.
>
> Actually, never mind. I just realized the function has to be called
> before the attribute can be set, which can not-only raise any exception,
> but could potentially have undesired side-effects given a parameter it
> doesn't expect.
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