On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 11:38, Mark Nottingham wrote: > PEP 232 lists syntactic support for function attributions to be a > possible future direction. I would very much like to use function > attributes for associating metadata with functions and methods, but the > lack of such syntactic support precludes their use, so I end up > (ab)using __doc__. > > Has there been much further consideration of this issue? I'm not too > particular about the chosen syntax, I just need something that doesn't > require qualification with the function name (which tends to reduce > readability/typeability, in some cases drastically so). > > I'm happy to write a PEP if that will help, but wanted to get a sense > of what people's thinking was. Function attributes of course already exist. They seem like they'd be really cool to use <wink>. But I agree. I think we did well not introducing new syntax for Python 2.3 so we owe it to ourselves to break that bad habit. :) I'd also like to see syntactic support for method annotations, hooking into descriptors. I've been using a lot of properties in some recent code and while they are very very cool (and IMO improve Python in some important ways), they are still too tedious to use. I think the method annotation idea would be an elegant addition. -Barry
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