On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 6:14 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > These two I would be less averse to, but the trouble is that they make > the semantics a bit harder to explain. "Dotted names are looked up if > not already looked up, otherwise they use the same object from the > previous lookup". If you have (say) "case > socket.AddressFamily.AF_INET", does it cache "socket", > "socket.AddressFamily", or both? >
I meant "It is implementation detail" and "User must not rely on side effects of attribute access." -- Inada Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/QN6EG4332J2RO27DJYMBLGD7KLQCUZ5A/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
