On Saturday, 2 August 2014 08:14:08 UTC+1, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Mark Summerfield: > > > Suggestion #1: Make IDLE start in the user's home directory. > > > Suggestion #2: Make all the turtle examples begin "from turtle import > > *" so no leading turtle. is needed in the examples. > > > > Suggestion #3: Make object(key=value, ...) legal and equiv of > > types.SimpleNamespace(key=value, ...). > > Great suggestions for adults as well. > > Expanding #3: > > >>> o = object() > >>> o.x = 3 > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> > AttributeError: 'object' object has no attribute 'x' > > Why? > > Marko
object() returns a minimal featureless object with no dictionary (no __dict__ attribute). This makes sense for efficiency since not all objects need a dictionary. What I'm suggesting is that _in addition_ to the existing behavior, a new behavior is introduced whereby object() called with keyword arguments creates a types.SimpleNamespace object (i.e., a basic object that has a dictionary initialized by the keyword arguments). Mark. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
