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function attributes are like function objects

Michael Hudson mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Thu Feb 1 07:26:50 EST 2001 
Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> > 
> > It didn't really
> > seem like they were missing so much as it seemed like they would act
> > more like everything else now...
> 
> Everything? What about lists, dicts, tuples, file
> objects...?
> 
> What's so special about functions that we need to
> be able to plonk arbitrary attributes on them, but
> not any other builtin types?

The fact that people were using the one attribute they could get at
(__doc__) for things far from its original purpose?

Cheers,
M.

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