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Tue Aug 29 10:22:35 EDT 2017 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-August/149049.html

On 29 August 2017 at 23:18, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 5:01 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> [..]
>> P.S. And I say that as a reader who correctly guessed why you had
>> changed the method name in the current iteration of the proposal. I'm
>> sympathetic to those reasons, but I think sticking with the
>> conventional API will make this one easier to learn and use :)
>
> Yeah, I agree.  We'll switch lookup -> get in the next iteration.
>
> Guido's parallel with getattr/setattr/delattr is also useful. getattr
> can also lookup the attribute in base classes, but we still call it
> "get".

True, in many ways attribute inheritance is Python's original ChainMap
implementation :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia

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