In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote:
> > One other question I did not get answered: is there any > > simple example of a Pythonic use of __slots__ that does NOT > > involve the creation of **many** instances. > > Since the only benefit of __slots__ is saving a few bytes per instance, > it's not worth the bother unless there are many instances -- so, the > answer is 'no'. I can think of at least two other benefits to using __slots__: 1. If you have a typo in an attribute assignment you get an exception instead of a latent downstream bug. 2. Implicit documentation. rg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
