James Y Knight wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Johan Dahlin wrote: >> What I want to ask, is it possible to have a sanctioned way to implement >> a dynamic module/namespace in python? >> >> For instance, it could be implemented to allow you to replace the >> __dict__ attribute in a module with a user provided object which >> implements the dictionary protocol. > > I'd like this, as well, although my use case is different: I'd like to > be able to deprecate attributes in a module. That is, if I have: > > foo.py: > SOME_CONSTANT = 5 > > I'd like to be able to do something such that any time anyone accessed > foo.SOME_CONSTANT, it'd emit a DeprecationWarning.
Agreed, this would be another nice feature to have. I've did something similar a time ago for PyGTK aswell, while less elegant than your proposed solution, it seems that it's working fairly well: DeprecatedConstant can be found here: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/pygtk/gtk/deprecation.py?view=markup -- Johan Dahlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Async Open Source _______________________________________________ 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
