On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano < steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > Ian Kelly wrote: > > > A function, on the > > other hand, is not well suited to be a namespace, because it's not > > expected to provide one. > > > And that is exactly the point I am making about the inherent > conservativeness of Python developers. > > Functions ARE namespaces, like instances of user-defined classes they have a > __dict__ and can carry per-instance state. (If you think that only modules > are namespaces, you are badly mistaken. Instances are namespaces too.)
I never said that functions can't be used as namespaces. I said that functions are *bad* namespaces, and I gave reasons why I think this is true.
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