"Nick Coghlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stelios Xanthakis wrote:It appears that there are the 'module people' who find this feature irrelevant. Indeed. If we are interested in distributing modules and increasing the number of people who use python programs,then __source__ is redundant. OTOH, programming python is easy and fun and I think the proposed feature will make it even more fun and it aims in increasing the number of people who program python for their every day tasks. It'd be interesting to hear if the developers of IDLE/ipython/etc could use this.
I don't see enough here to make a very intelligent comment, so I'll risk it and make what might be a rather uninformed comment.
Are you trying to create a Smalltalkish environment where you can simply edit anything on the fly, and then it's immediately effective? While I don't know Smalltalk, the ones I do know indicate that they liked that environment very much.
However, this might have real problems with the dangling references issue. Or maybe not: there may be ways of redesigning the function object so that you can replace the embedded code object on the fly.
John Roth
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