Hello,
I'm not a python-dev regular, so sorry if this is a FAQ. What's the status
of defining a syntax for function attributes (PEP 232)? I'm using __doc__
to carry metadata about methods right now, but would very much like to use
function attributes. However, without a specialized syntax, I'm stuck
doing things like
VeryLongMethodName.MetadataName = "foo"
which is fine if it's a one-off, but I'd like others to use the code, and
this isn't exactly a friendly mechanism. The proposals in the PEP would be
fine; I was thinking something like
def foo(a):
"""this is the docstring"""
.this_is_a_function_attribute = 1
but that's just off the top of my head.
I'm happy to do some work writing a PEP if there's some consensus about
what syntax would be preferable.
Cheers,
--
Mark Nottingham
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