[Python-3000] Builtin iterator type
Bill Janssen
janssen at parc.com
Sat Nov 18 04:51:05 CET 2006
Greg Ewing writes:
> > Checking for some textual attributes of a
> > type
>
> Now you're talking about LYBL, which is generally
> considered an anti-pattern in Python. APIs should
> be designed so that you don't need to test for the
> presence of features.
So you join me in wanting to make the use of "hasattr()" unnecessary?
Good.
But when you do have to test, it would be nice to be able to
test for a semantic item rather than a syntactic one.
Bill
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