On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 06:47:31PM +0300, Steve Alexander wrote:
Instances of built-in types do not allow extra attributes (nor should they.) So, for example, declarePrivate('some_string_attribute') has no effect, nor did it ever have any effect.
We don't need instances of built-in types to allow extra attributes. So, no need to say {}.__roles__ = something. What we would need is to be able to say dict.__roles__ = something.
but then all instances would have the same roles.
It would be nice if the objects that represent built-in types could have attributes set on them. This would be helpful for some things in Zope 3 too.
I dunno. I'm starting to come around and think that it's not that big of a deal. One could always just have a publishableDict that subclasses dict. -- Paul Winkler home: http://www.slinkp.com "Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"