On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You can write code to guard against this if you want: > > class A: > legal = set(["x"]) > def __setattr__(self,attr,val): > if attr not in self.legal: > raise AttributeError("A object has no attribute '%s'" % > attr) > self.__dict__[attr] = val > def __init__(self,x): > self.y = x > > > I suspect most people who go into Python doing something like this > soon abandon it when they see how rarely it actually catches anything. > > > Carl Banks > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
<marco_scracthing_his_head> Carl, I think I did not explained what I was asking the right way. </marco_scracthing_his_head> I'm not asking: "how can I do this sort of checks in Python": as I stated before, if I want them, I will go for Java, or some other language like that. I understand that Python is a balance between different forces (like any software object around the world) and I'm simply asking some pointers to the discussion leading to this balance. That's all. -- Marco Bizzarri http://notenotturne.blogspot.com/ http://iliveinpisa.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list