On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Mark Shannon <[email protected]> wrote: > To avoid this problem, type.define needs to be an overriding descriptor > such as a property (a PyGetSetDef in C). > Alternatively, just make 'define' a non-descriptor. > It would unusual (unique?) to have a builtin-function (rather than a > method-descriptor) bound to a class, but I can't see any fundamental reason > not to.
Oh, I see what you mean now. I hadn't fully thought through the implications of the static method being accessible through all instances of type, and that really doesn't seem like a good outcome. Exposing it through the types module as an ordinary builtin function is starting to sound a lot more attractive at this point. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | [email protected] | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
