I was looking at some python2 code that looks something like this:
def foo(self):
pass
foo.boolean = 'WTH'
and this code seems to be syntactically correct. But what purpose does it serve?
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Of course it is *syntactically* correct, `foo.bar = baz` is correct. Anyway, function objects are like any other object, you can assign attributes to them if you'd like, just like `class Foo: pass; foo = Foo(); foo.boolean = "WTH"`, however, I can't think of a lot of non-hacky use-cases off the top of my head – juanpa.arrivillaga Jan 06 '20 at 22:30
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`function` is one of the few (only?) builtin types that accept arbitrary attributes, though. – chepner Jan 06 '20 at 22:57
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@chepner definitely not only, consider exceptions, for example. Built-in containers definitely, though, I think. – juanpa.arrivillaga Jan 06 '20 at 23:09