On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 10:38 AM Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev <python-dev@python.org> wrote: > > I'm skeptical about anything that hides an object's "true nature": this is a > major landmine in diagnostics because it lies to you about what > you are looking at and where to look for its implementation. > > E. g. in this case, AF_UNIX is a member of some entity called "AddressFamily" > -- so I would search the code for "AddressFamily" to see what > I'm looking at and what else I can do with it. The fact that it's also > directly availabe from the `socket` module is incidental: it could be > as easily made available from anywhere else -- not even a module. >
But if it's described as socket.AF_UNIX then you know where to go looking for it, and type() can tell you the type if you actually need it. +1 for changing the socket enums; -1 for changing enums in general. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/O4XYZC7FBEO3ELAZGLEUNQY6PDCP7PED/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
