On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 22:23, David Eppstein wrote: > In 2.2 I was able to call object.__setattr__(cls,attr,value) > where cls is a new-style type (first argument of a classmethod), > and attr and value are the name and value of a class attribute I want to > create programmatically. I just upgraded to 2.3 but now when I try it I > get > > >>> class foo(object):pass > ... > >>> object.__setattr__(foo,'foo',None) > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > TypeError: can't apply this __setattr__ to type object > > Instead I apparently have to call > >>> type(foo).__setattr__(foo,'foo',None) > > > Anyway, my question: no harm done here because this was in undeployed > code and I've found a workaround, but shouldn't this have at least been > mentioned in "What's New in Python 2.3"? Or maybe this is one of the > some-other-change-with-far-reaching-consequences things that was > mentioned and I just don't see the connection? The change was reported on python-dev, but apparently got left out of the NEWS file. Here are the details: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-April/034605.html I don't know that it does much good to change NEWS after the fact, but I don't think there's anything more that can be done. Jeremy
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