On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:29:38AM +0100, Marco Buttu wrote: > +1. Would it be possible in the future (Py4?) to change the name `vars` > to a more meaningful name? Maybe `namespace`, or something more appropriate.
I'm not keen on the name vars() either, but it does make a certain sense: short for "variables", where "variable" here refers to attributes of an instance rather than local or global variables. I'm not sure that namespace is a better name: namespace, it seems to me, it likely to be used as the name of the target: namespace = vars(obj) But if there is a lot of popular demand for a name change, then I suppose it could happen. Ask again around Python 3.9 :-) -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
