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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Correct type for a simple "bag of attributes" namespace object
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 22:23:12 +0100
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On 02/08/2014 22:16, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 02/08/2014 22:05, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Mark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com>
>> wrote:
>>> But perhaps what I should be asking for is for a new built-in that
>>> does what types.SimpleNamespace() does, so that without any import
>>> you can write, say,
>>>
>>> foo = namespace(a=1, b=2)
>>> # or
>>> bar = namespace()
>>> bar.a = 1
>>>
>>> where under the hood namespace has the same behavior as
>>> types.SimpleNamespace().
>>>
>>> Naturally, I understand that adding a new name is a big deal and may
>>> be too much to ask for beginners.
>>
>> This is where you might want to consider putting some imports into
>> site.py. That way, you can set up your own customized Python, without
>> waiting for changes to be approved for core (which they probably won't
>> - new builtins have a high requirement for necessity, not just "I
>> don't want to have to type import").
>>
>> ChrisA
>>
>
> I'd forgotten all about site.py so went to the 3.4.1 docs and found
> "Deprecated since version 3.4: Support for the “site-python” directory
> will be removed in 3.5.".
>
> Plan B? :)
>

Plan B is revert to plan A, I didn't read things anything like 
thoroughly enough, sorry about the noise :(

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence