Paolino wrote: > Peter Otten wrote: >> Paolino wrote: >>> Why descriptor mechanism doesn't apply to modules? >> Because modules are instances of the module class and the descriptor >> has to be defined in the class in order to work with the instance.... > Then there is no way of having descriptors at module level,as 'module' > class is not updatable.
Well, an entry in the dictionary "sys.modules" is what is returned by imports, so you could either pre-replace or post-replace a module by an object which uses the descriptor technique to get to some (but not necessarily all) of the attributes. Think of this technique as a hack to get to a goal, rather than a good technique to use; good for debugging, not so nice for production work. If you still don't know how to do this from this admittedly sketchy description, I'd suggest you avoid trying it altogether. --Scott David Daniels -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
