On 9/01/21 9:12 am, Chris Barker wrote:
(though I notice that if you create __slots__ in pure Python, its names
show up in dict anyway -- so clearly I'm confused...)
Descriptors for the slots get added to the *class* dict.
But that's not the dict that vars() looks at.
--
Greg
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This was discussed a bit over on python-ideas recently, so a note from me,
and one from that thread:
Or for that matter, not the reason to provide
> object's internal storage via object's attribute: obj.__dict__.
>
Well, it IS an implementation detail that it's a dictionary, but having a
dunder t
Hello,
On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 01:10:17 +1300
Greg Ewing wrote:
> On 22/12/20 12:36 am, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> > Expected clarification on ".__dict__ breaking object
> > encapsulation":
>
> Encapsulation is not something that Python has ever been big
> on. There are plenty of places where imple
On 22/12/20 12:36 am, Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
Expected clarification on ".__dict__ breaking object encapsulation":
Encapsulation is not something that Python has ever been big
on. There are plenty of places where implementation details are
exposed, and we don't regard that as a problem.
--
Greg
