Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Thats true. But out of curiosity: why is changing the interpreter such > a bad thing? (If we suppose for now that the change itself is a good > idea).
Round and round and round we go. Because by doing as you suggest you'd be altering the internal consistency of how python deals with objects, particularly function objects. By keeping all functions as function objects, we're able to provide a consistent view of things both to the programmer and the interpreter. If we break this consistency then we're saying, well this is always a function, except in this case, and except in this case, when it's dealt with specially. This does not fit at all with python's established mantras. In python, "def" does only one thing: it creates a function object and binds it to a name. That's it! Making what def does context-sensitive seems pretty silly to me, and without any real benefit. As said before, adding attributes after the fact that are functions is a chore, because those functions can't be unit tested, and can't be clearly read and understood by other programmers. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
