On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 08:19 PM, John Belmonte wrote:
> I would like for Quixote's PTL system to use Python function
> attributes within normal .py files.  For example:
>
>     # html_util.py
>
>     def paragraph(text):
>       '
%s
' % text
>
>     paragraph.ptl = 'html'

Unfortunately Python doesn't look at function attributes at all when
calling a function; they're intended to let Python code attach
properties to functions for the code's own purposes.  PTL works by
compiling template functions specially, so assigning something to a
property won't change the function's behavior.

A better course would be to change pydoc and pychecker.

--amk