At 03:51 PM 12/3/2007 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: >On Dec 3, 2007 3:48 PM, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, you're missing the part where such evil code *can't* muck > > things up for class dictionaries. Type dicts aren't reachable via > > ordinary Python code; you *have* to modify them via setattr. (The > > __dict__ of types returns a read-only proxy object, so the most evil > > rich compare you can imagine still can't touch it.) > >What's to prevent that evil comparison to call setattr on the class?
If you're caching values, it should be sufficient to have setattr trigger the invalidation. For entries, I have to admit I don't understand the approach well enough to make a specific proposal. _______________________________________________ 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
