On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 07:31:06 -0500, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > Is this behaviour (object not quite like a class) documented anywhere?
It's exactly like a class. It's an immutable class. You are making assumptions about what classes must be able to do. > Does anyone know the rationale for this if any? object is intended as the base class for all others. As such, it is absolutely dead simple, with no state and very few methods other than those required by everything. The usual way we use object instances is as identity-objects: objects with (almost) no behaviour other than their identity: SENTINEL = object() # later if obj is SENTINEL: ... A bit like None. The usual way to get what you want is a simple subclass of object, but even more convenient: py> from types import SimpleNamespace py> x = SimpleNamespace(x=1, y=2, z=3) py> x namespace(x=1, y=2, z=3) -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
