Yury Selivanov yselivanov.ml at gmail.com
Mon Sep 9 22:01:47 CEST 2013

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Yes, I don't like the 'local' prefix too.  How about '__dictlookup__'?
It's just more self-describing.

Yury

On 2013-09-09, at 2:23 PM, Jan Kaliszewski <zuo at chopin.edu.pl> wrote:

> Is '__locallookup__' a really good name? In Python, *local* -- especially in context of *lookups* -- usually associates with locals() i.e. a namespace of a function/method execution frame or a namespace of a class, during *definition* of that class... So '__locallookup__' can be confusing.
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> Why not just '__getclassattribute__' or '__classlookup__', or '__classattribute__'...?
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> Cheers.
> *j
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