Hi Guido,
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:59:13AM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
The descriptor for __getattr__ and other special attributes could
claim to be a data descriptor
This has the nice effect that x[y] and x.__getitem__(y) would again be
equivalent, which looks good.
On the other hand, I
Since this bug isn't the cause of Fredrik's problem I'm changing the
subject (and keep discussing the specific problem that Fredrik
uncovered under the original subject).
On 2005 Jan 12, at 05:11, Guido van Rossum wrote:
...
I had exactly the same metabug in the pep 246 reference
On 2005 Jan 11, at 23:20, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
back in Python 2.1 (and before), an object could define how copy.copy
should
work simply by definining a __copy__ method. here's the relevant
portion:
...
try:
copierfunction = _copy_dispatch[type(x)]
except KeyError:
At 11:56 PM 1/11/05 +0100, Alex Martelli wrote:
What both issues? There's only one issue, it seems to me -- one of
metaconfusion.
I was relying on Fredrik's report of a problem with the code; that is the
other issue I referred to.
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At 02:58 PM 1/11/05 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
[Phillip]
Looks like a bug to me; it breaks the behavior of classic classes, since
type(classicInstance) returns InstanceType.
I'm not so sure. I can't seem to break this for classic classes.
Sorry; I was extrapolating from what I thought was
