On 29 August 2017 at 23:18, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 5:01 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > [..] >> P.S. And I say that as a reader who correctly guessed why you had >> changed the method name in the current iteration of the proposal. I'm >> sympathetic to those reasons, but I think sticking with the >> conventional API will make this one easier to learn and use :) > > Yeah, I agree. We'll switch lookup -> get in the next iteration. > > Guido's parallel with getattr/setattr/delattr is also useful. getattr > can also lookup the attribute in base classes, but we still call it > "get".
True, in many ways attribute inheritance is Python's original ChainMap implementation :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
