"eryksun ()" <eryk...@gmail.com> writes: > > Regarding this I have question about function attributes. Is there an > equivalent of 'self' for functions? I've seen people use function > attributes as local static variables, but this seems problematic when > all you have is a global reference to the function. The original > reference might get deleted. Then when your function tries to > reference its 'static' variable you'll get a NameError exception. For > example: > > In [1]: def test1(n): > ...: test1.a = n > > In [2]: test1(10); test1.a > Out[2]: 10 > > In [3]: test2 = test1; test2.a > Out[3]: 10 >
[...] I had never seen such a thing, but why would this make sense at all? When does it make sense logically for a function to have an attribute? A function should have some input, some local variables to compute temporary results and a return value, I think nothing more... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
