Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nick Craig-Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > In python when making __slots__ or module.__all__ you end up typing
> > lists of objects or methods and they turn out like this which is quite
> > a lot of extra typing
> >
> > __slots__ = ["method1", "method2", "method3", "method4", "method5"]
>
> For __all__ you can use a decorator to avoid retyping the function name at
> all. e.g.
>
> def public(f):
> all = f.func_globals.setdefault('__all__', [])
> all.append(f.__name__)
> return f
>
> @public
> def foo(): pass
Nice one!
> I don't use __slots__ much at all, and if you'd said "attribute1" etc. I'd
> have understood, but I'm really curious why would you be listing any
> methods in __slots__?
Those should of course have been attributes - I noticed immediately
after posting ;-)
Aside: __slots__ is only really useful when you've created so many
objects you are running out of memory and you need to optimise memory
usage a bit. We got our app down to 1/3 of the memory usage by
putting in three __slots__
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