The Music Guy wrote:
As for it not being useful enough to justify new syntax, well, I think Ben showed pretty well that it actually is. Approximately 600 uses of the get*r functions were used in the Python 2.5 standard library alone.
The standard library isn't necessarily representative of Python code in general. I just looked at three of my projects, and out of a total of 45954 lines (about half the size of the stdlib) I found only 37 uses of getattr and setattr. Also, many of the uses of getattr in the std lib appear to be of the 3-argument form, which your suggested syntax doesn't cover. If I exclude those from my code, I'm left with only 18 uses. So I would only be able to use your syntax in about 0.04% of the lines of code that I typically write. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
