[Twisted-Python] python properties in twisted don't work

[Tristan Seligmann]

* Alec Flett <alecf at metaweb.com> [2008-12-18 11:03:48 -0800]:

>
> On Dec 18, 2008, at 6:04 AM, Drew Smathers wrote:
>
>> Protocol is an old-style class - doesn't inherit from object - so
>> property won't work in that context.  This won't be a problem in
>> python 3 - old-style/new-style classes are consolidated.
>>
>
> Is there any interest in adding 'object' to some of the core classes  
> like Deferred, in a future release of Twisted? It would help with some  
> debugging/logging (because there's better introspection)

The proble with doing this is that it is a backwards-incompatible change;
doing this in a way that would comply with Twisted's backwards
compatibility policy would be somewhat awkward:

http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/CompatibilityPolicy

What sort of better introspection are you talking about?
-- 
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