Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: defaultproperty

2005-10-11 Thread Nick Coghlan
Brett Cannon wrote: On 10/10/05, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 01:47, Calvin Spealman wrote: Never created for a reason? lumping things together for having the similar usage semantics, but unrelated purposes, might be something to avoid and maybe that's why it

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: defaultproperty

2005-10-11 Thread Greg Ewing
Nick Coghlan wrote: As a location for this, I would actually suggest a module called something like metatools, -1, too vague and meaningless a name. If decorator is the official term for this kind of function, then calling the module decorators is precise and helpful. Other kinds of

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: defaultproperty

2005-10-10 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 01:47, Calvin Spealman wrote: Never created for a reason? lumping things together for having the similar usage semantics, but unrelated purposes, might be something to avoid and maybe that's why it hasn't happened yet for decorators. If ever there was a makethreadsafe

Re: [Python-Dev] Fwd: defaultproperty

2005-10-10 Thread Brett Cannon
On 10/10/05, Barry Warsaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 01:47, Calvin Spealman wrote: Never created for a reason? lumping things together for having the similar usage semantics, but unrelated purposes, might be something to avoid and maybe that's why it hasn't happened yet

[Python-Dev] Fwd: defaultproperty

2005-10-09 Thread Calvin Spealman
Sorry, Nick. GMail, for some reason, doesn't follow the reply-to properly for python-dev. Forwarding to list now... On 10/9/05, Nick Coghlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Fulton wrote: Based on the discussion, I think I'd go with defaultproperty. Questions: - Should this be in builtins,