Post tagged: slots

by Paul Agapow
in programming

tagged python, programming, slots, imported, possibly-obselete

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Slots

A new, and poorly explained, feature of Python classes.

Around version 2.2, Python rejigged its classes with some useful extensions. Unfortunately these enhancements have been explained so poorly that they appear in little published code.

One such enhancement is __slots__. An attribute of this name in a class restricts what attributes can be created in objects of that …