Nick Coghlan wrote: > [ much good, including the @instance decorator ]
> P.S. If all you want is somewhere to store mutable > state between invocations, you can always use the > function's own attribute space >>> def f(): print "Hi world from %s!" % f >>> f() Hi world from <function f at 0x00AE90B0>! Not really. That assumes the expected name is (permanently) bound to *this* function in this function's globals. That's normally true, but not always, so relying on it seems wrong. >>> f="a string" >>> g() Hi world from a string! And of course, sometimes I really do want shared state, or helpers (like other methods on a class), or one-time ininitialization plus per-call parameters (like the send method on 2.5 generators), or ... -jJ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com