On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 22:55:26 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Dan Sommers <d...@tombstonezero.net>:
>
>> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 14:39:38 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> I have often wished Python had proper namespaces, so I didn't have to
>>> abuse classes as containers in this way :-(
>>>
>>> (Not that I do this using "inner classes", but I do often want to use
>>> a class as a container for functions, without caring about "self" or
>>> wrapping everything in staticmethod.)
>>
>> Isn't that what modules are for? (I suspect that I'm missing
>> something, because I also suspect that you knew/know that.)
>
> What's the syntax for creating an inner module...?
from types import ModuleType
m = ModuleType('m')
m.one = 1
m.a = 'a'
m.b = lambda x: x + one
except that not only doesn't it look nice, but it doesn't work because
the m.b function doesn't pick up the m.one variable, but a global
variable instead.
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it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson
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