On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Eric Snow wrote: > >> Thought I knew how to provide a dynamic __name__ on instances of a >> class. My first try was to use a non-data descriptor: > > Perhaps you should explain what you are trying to do. If you want to give > instances their own name, why not just give them an instance > attribute "name"? Double-leading-and-trailing-underscore attributes are > reserved for Python, and have special semantics.
Again useful information failed to make it from my head to the keyboard. :) Currently I am looking at objects, regardless of their types, and keying off their name. If it is a module, class, or function object, the name should be stored in __name__ already. If it is an instance of the Base class I demonstrated, I would like to maintain that convention. However, you may have a good point. In other code I can simply check for the name attribute I choose for my objects and also check for __name__. I suppose I just liked the idea of having a single attribute to check. -eric > > > -- > Steven > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
