Raymond Hettinger wrote: > >>> I think it was tripping-up the folks working on the C implementation. >>> Georg can speak to it more directly. IIRC, the issue was that the >>> context object exposed a dictionary which a user could update directly >>> and there was no notification back to the surrounding object so it could >>> update an underlying bitfield representation. >>> >> >> Yes, that's exactly what the problem was. Working with bitfields internally >> is fine as long as Python code doesn't want to change the dicts exposed >> as a wrapper. >> > > If you want to stick with dictionary-like access to traps and flags, > then use a dict subclass that overrides each of the mutating methods.
That may be easiest to do in Python code. I'll leave it to Mateusz to decide. > Even then, we need to drop the concept of having the flags as counters > rather than booleans. Yes. Given that even Tim couldn't imagine a use case for counting the exceptions, I think it's sensible. Georg _______________________________________________ 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
