Marco Bizzarri wrote:
I understand that Python is a balance between different forces (like any software object around the world) and I'm simply asking some pointers to the discussion leading to this balance.
The original decisions by Guido were nearly 20 years ago and other discussions are scattered through the archive of this and the py-dev list. But here is a pointer. Why go through the trouble of writing functions that will set, get, and delete an attribute and the trouble of calling those functions when you can use Python's existing syntax to do it directly? More particularly, why would/should Guido force the combersome indirection and time-penalty for writing, reading, and execution on *every* Python programmer?
Of course, from my viewpoint, and for my usage,languages that do so force are obnoxious.
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