On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Shai Berger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday 10 September 2010, cool-RR wrote: > > > Why would I need to use gc for it? I can get the address for almost any > > object with `__module__`. > > > > "Almost" indeed. Expect problems with naive decorators (those who wrap > functions without using functools.wraps or doing the equivalent), in > particular. > > > This kind of thing is used in Django settings module, (specifying strings > > instead of objects themselves,) so why is it a bad design choice when I > > want to do it? > > It's fine when you go from names to objects (as Django does). It's > suspicious > when you try to go from objects to names, because there is (in general) no > unique or even preferred name for any objects; and functions, methods and > classes are just like any other object in that respect. Imri's mention of a > debugger makes me think that is what he was referring to. > I think that the name shown in `repr` is the preferred name. That's the name that I take. > > Also, the pickle module in the standard library uses an object's address > to > > pickle some kinds of objects (classes, functions). > > > > Anyway, I'm frustrated from getting a lot of "You're doing it wrong" > > answers for this question, and I just want an answer, not explanation on > > why I shouldn't do it. (My question is, "Is there a mature module for > > these tasks?") > > > Your frustration notwithstanding, this is a public list and people will > express their opinions and not just what you want to hear. > > I am not aware of a mature module for the tasks you specified, and -- for > the > reasons mentioned above -- believe the existence of one is unlikely. > > Hope this helps, > Shai. > Thanks Shai. Unless anyone knows of something like that, I will probably create one. (I already have code that does most of it, I just need to organize it, document it, write tests etc.) Ram.
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