[Python-ideas] Modules could behave like new-style objects

[Zac Burns]

Thanks Aahz,

I did a search for previous threads but all the keywords and
combinations of keywords I could think of showed an overwhelming
amount of unrelated things. Does anyone know where I can find this
information?

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On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009, Zac Burns wrote:
>>
>> I would like to see modules behave more like new-style objects. One
>> should be able to add properties, descriptors, __getattr__, and such.
>>
>> One common use case for me is implementing wrapper modules that
>> populate dynamically (like the ctypes.windll object - except as a
>> module).
>
> Guido can speak up for himself, but in the past he's been pretty negative
> about this idea; you may want to hunt up previous threads.
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