From: Elliot Temple <curi@...>
Date: 2006-07-09T14:22:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby over Python?


On Jul 8, 2006, at 9:49 PM, Elliot Temple wrote:

>
> On Jul 8, 2006, at 9:40 PM, richardun@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I love Ruby because I can do this:
>>
>> class Integer
>>   def even?
>>     ( self % 2 ) == 0
>>   end
>> end
>>
>> puts 3.even?
>> puts 28.even?
>
> I don't know if that's possible in Python, but apparently I can't  
> guess how to do it based on a little previous Python usage:
>
<snip>

OK now I think you can't do it:

 >>> list.x = 5
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: can't set attributes of built-in/extension type 'list'


-- Elliot Temple
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