On Nov 18, 4:07 am, MonkeeSage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Proposal: > > When an attribute lookup fails for an object, check the top-level > (and local scope?) for a corresponding function or attribute and apply > it as the called attribute if found, drop through to the exception > otherwise. This is just syntactic sugar.
[...] > Benefits: [...] > - Backwards compatible; one can use the top-level functions when > desired. No change to existing code required. It changes how the following code executes: -------------------------- def foo(x): return x.foo() foo(1) -------------------------- * currently this raises AttributeError * under your proposal this code would fill the stack and raise a RuntimeError I guess. > - Seemingly trivial to implement (though I don't know much C). On > attribute lookup failure, simply iterate the symbol table looking for > a match, otherwise raise the exception (like current implementation). This is not a benefit! -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list