Namespaces are one honking great idea

[Rustom Mody]

On Friday, July 1, 2016 at 8:19:36 PM UTC+5:30, BartC wrote:
> On 01/07/2016 15:13, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
> > Sometimes we have a group of related functions and variables that belong
> > together, but are not sufficiently unrelated to the rest of the module that
> > we want to split them out into another file.
> 
> > Here's a proof of concept. I use a class with a custom metaclass like this:
> >
> >
> > # Python 3 version
> > class ExampleNS(metaclass=Namespace):
> >     x = 1
> >     y = []
> >
> >     def spam(n):
> >         return 'spam'*n
> 
> > py> Example.spam(5)
> > 'spamspamspamspamspam'
> 
> 
> Why not just extend the capabilities of a class? I actually thought this 
> would work until I tried it and it didn't:

Well I also thought similarly -- sure a normal (instance) method cannot be
used without an instance but sure this is what class/static methods are for?
ie Steven's option 4.

Then I remembered that python's LEGB rule is bizarre:
Outer scopes are added outside inner scopes ... except for classes