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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 21:49:32 +1100
Subject: Re: dunder-docs (was Python is DOOMED! Again!)
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On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> It's slightly sad that Python exposes the two-level attribute lookup. It
> would be more elegant if, conceptually, all methods were retrieved from
> the object's attribute dict. That way, the class would be simply a
> mundane optimization trick instead of a metaphysical entity.
>

That's the ECMAScript model of classes - prototype-based. It's not
Python's. There are many different ways to do things.

ChrisA