Edward Loper wrote:
> Otherwise, it seems like people might write code that relies on the
> current behavior, which will then break if we eg turn __context__ into
> a slot. (It sounds like you want to reserve the right to change this.)
> Well, of course, people may rely on the current behavio
Michael Chermside wrote:
>> Right now, we say that there's one rule for all *normal* attributes
>> and
>> methods, and a slightly different rule for all double-underbar
>> methods.
Guido responded:
> But it's not normal vs. __xyzzy__. A specific set of slots (including
> next, but excluding thin
On 11/29/05, Michael Chermside <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right now, we say that there's one rule for all *normal* attributes and
> methods, and a slightly different rule for all double-underbar methods.
But it's not normal vs. __xyzzy__. A specific set of slots (including
next, but excluding th
On 11/29/05, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The bit that more concerns me is the behavioural discrepancy that comes from
> having a piece of syntax that looks in the instance dictionary. No other
> Python syntax is affected by the instance attributes - if the object doesn't
> have the ri
Nick writes:
> I think we need to fix the proposed semantics so that they access the slots
> via the type, rather than directly through the instance. Otherwise the slots
> for the with statement will behave strangely when compared to the slots for
> other magic methods.
Guido writes:
> I can't mak
Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 11/28/05, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I think we need to fix the proposed semantics so that they access the slots
>> via the type, rather than directly through the instance. Otherwise the slots
>> for the with statement will behave strangely when compared
On 11/28/05, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Given the current semantics of PEP 343 and the following class:
>
>class null_context(object):
> def __context__(self):
> return self
> def __enter__(self):
> return self
> def __exit__(self, *exc_info):
>
