On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:56:34 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 7/11/2010 12:51 PM, pyt...@bdurham.com wrote: >> I have a complex object with attributes that contain lists, sets, >> dictionaries, and other objects. The lists and dictionaries may >> themselves contain complex objects. >> I would like to provide a read-only version of this type of object for >> other developers to query for reporting. Is there a way to prevent >> other developers from changing the attributes of my complex and nested >> object? >> In researching this question, I have identified __setattr__ and >> __delattr__ as possible ways to prevent changes to simple attributes, >> but I don't believe these magic methods will prevent others from >> fiddling with attributes containing lists and dictionaries or the >> contents of these lists and dictionaries. > > Python was not really not developed for multi-developer projects whose > members are willing to stomp on each others objects.
I like the idea of competition-driven development, where the code that survives best in the face of hostile developers gets used. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
