On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:18:39PM -0500, Martin Maney wrote:
> But I think this is much saner than piling magic special cases on
> _q_exports.  Should be easy to add _q_map (if it exists) prior to
> trying the old _q_exports to allow for an easy transition, then a quiet
> obsolescence (assuming there's agreement that the _q_map equivalent of
> _q_exports is simple enough to allow that).

Possible solution: _q_map is automatically created the first time you
traverse through an object.  If the object already has a _q_map, the
contents of _q_exports are merged into _q_map.  So you could include one,
the other, or both as you see fit.

One worry: mutating _q_map could lead to confusion.  Python doesn't have an
immutable dictionary type (unless Raymond Hettinger went and added one).

--amk