On 29 August 2010 04:36, Stefan Behnel <[email protected]> wrote: > Lisandro Dalcin, 29.08.2010 03:39: > >> On the other hand, I do not care too much if this is implemented going >> through a descriptor, but as I'm not going to use this feature anyway. > > I think that describes the main use case already: "I won't use it in my > code, but the users of my code *may* want to have it". That's the main > reason why I'm advocating a low impact for the unused case. >
If users want a dict in their instances, then use a subclass. That the way to have to do it for built-in types like list or dict. Take into account that adding a __dict__ will waste a pointer in your object structure. > Note that your patch only solves half of the problem that Neal describes: > it implements __dict__ for instances but not for types. Adding support for modifying type dict's is a completely different feature. It will require more careful implementation because of the type cache in Py>=2.6, and it would likely require some dedicated syntax of @cython decorator, because cdef __dict__ would apply to instances and not to the type. -- Lisandro Dalcin --------------- CIMEC (INTEC/CONICET-UNL) Predio CONICET-Santa Fe Colectora RN 168 Km 472, Paraje El Pozo Tel: +54-342-4511594 (ext 1011) Tel/Fax: +54-342-4511169 _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
