On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Jameson Quinn <jameson.qu...@gmail.com> wrote: > OK, fair enough. People don't like this. So let me back up a step.
> Clearly this is intended for using with things that you get as a dictionary, > but which really should be namespaces. The top two cases of that are parsed > json objects and **kw arguments. If you need this for **kw arguments maybe you're not using them right; why not name your arguments if you're going to reference them by name? The JSON use case seems to be driven because this is the way JavaScript does things -- they don't distinguish between dicts and objects. I personally think that's a poor language feature: it blurs a line that should be clear, between data (dict keys) and program variables (attributes). -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
