On 26 June 2013 16:40, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Joshua Landau wrote: > >> I would say if a dict isn't good, there are still some cases where you >> might not want to use globals. >> >> I _might_ do: > >> # Make a module >> module_for_little_classes = ModuleType("module_for_little_classes", >> "All the things") >> module_for_little_classes.__dict__.update(little_classes) > > Hm, from within module_for_little_classes that is globals(). To illustrate: > >>>> import __main__ as main >>>> globals() is main.__dict__ > True
Yes, that's true - but the point wasn't not to use "globals the function", but not to use *this* global scope. > Also, I'd spell module.__dict__ vars(module). Again, good catch. Definitely that. > That said I agree that it's a good idea to use a dedicated module (not > necessarily created on the fly) for those dynamically generated classes. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list