On Sep 23, 8:40 pm, "Rhodri James" <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> wrote: > eggs[42] = Foo() > beans['spam'] = Foo() > chips.spam = Foo() > spam[eggs.beans['chips']] = Foo() > spam.append(Foo())
these are valid points, but in practice the main use (for the restricted application i care about) is si,ple variables, and this is an "optional extra" to help the user, so it's OK if it only works sometimes. at the moment i'd be happy with any half-baked unreliable solution that is transparent... andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list