On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Skip Montanaro
wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Interesting data point there - that you actually have it handy and
>> choose not to use it.
>
> And, I believe I wrote it. Can't have a worse recommendation than
> that. A cook who
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Interesting data point there - that you actually have it handy and
> choose not to use it.
And, I believe I wrote it. Can't have a worse recommendation than
that. A cook who doesn't eat his own cooking. :-) I think I disabled
its import so
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Dave Angel wrote:
> I gave it a short whirl, just trying to make __missing__ work.
>
> The type of globals () is a dict. I was able to add a
> __missing__:myfunct to the instance but in order to work, the
> __missing__ must be added as a class attribute, a metho
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Skip Montanaro
wrote:
> sys.excepthook = autoload_exc
>
> I can't see a lot of people wanting this (I normally have its import
> commented out in my PYTHONSTARTUP file), and I think it would probably
> be bad practice for new users of the language.
Interesting dat
Chris Angelico Wrote in message:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> So the semantics should be: If NameError would be raised (not
>> including UnboundLocalError, which still represents an error), attempt
>> to import the absent name. If successful, continue as if it had
> No bites? I'd have thought there'd be a few crazy ideas thrown out in
> answer to this.
I was on vacation for a few days, so haven't been all that attentive
to my mail. I have an autoload module which does something similar
(note the Python 2.x syntax):
import sys, inspect, traceback, re
def a
On 11/12/2014 06:37 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
So the semantics should be: If NameError would be raised (not
including UnboundLocalError, which still represents an error), attempt
to import the absent name. If successful, continue as if it
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> So the semantics should be: If NameError would be raised (not
> including UnboundLocalError, which still represents an error), attempt
> to import the absent name. If successful, continue as if it had
> already been done. If ImportError is
Let's have some fun nutting out possible implementations for a bad idea :)
If you want a dictionary that prepopulates itself on demand, you
implement __missing__. Is there a way to implement the same thing for
the __main__ module? Since it isn't imported (as such), I don't think
"switch out what's
