Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > Not accidental, but people complain if you use slots for the purpose of > prohibiting attribute creation. They say "That's not what __slots__ was > designed for!". That's okay though, computers were designed for breaking > Germany ciphers and calculating the trajectory of cannon-shells, but > they're not the only things we use computers for these days.
It's hard to figure out from the docs exactly what slots is supposed to do: http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#id3 I don't think it's good style to rely on accidental, undocumented characteristics of some language feature. But, I may start using slots for some of the stuff I'm doing, just to reduce space consumption and keep more instances around, which is what it's really intended for. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
