On 3/29/22 09:57, Ricky Teachey wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 12:49 PM Ethan Furman wrote:
>> The `__dict__` is needed to store the field names -- did you add `__dict__` to the >> `__slots__`? (Of course, if you've added `__dict__` then you lose the limited size >> of `__slots__`.) > > Maybe I'm being an ignoramus but: how would it be possible to even use slots? Slots > are descriptors living in the class namespace. You don't know ahead of time what the > member names are, so you can't use slots, right? You can use them, just make sure one of the slots is `__dict__`. Of course, by adding `__dict__` you lose most (all?) of the advantages of using `__slots__` in the first place. -- ~Ethan~ _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/QM7MIHKP2GSBN6TYMPDIFKGHGC7KEH6E/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
