On 06/25/10 14:31, Richard Thomas <chards...@gmail.com> wrote: <snip>
> > If you desperately want to limit the attribute assignments that can be > performed on an object you can set the __slots__ attribute of its > type. However, the Python ethos has always been to restrict as little > as necessary to provide the tools it needs. Performing additional > checks every time an attribute assignment is performed is completely > unnecessary. Remember that unlike C these checks would have to be > performed at run-time. > I don't care in which way I can limit this, I care why I should limit this by default, not vice versa? Yeah, I do understand this could be a performance issue, but comparing it with a language design issue, _I think_ the latter thing is much more important than the former one. -- Live like a child, think like the god. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
