Re: [matplotlib-devel] method delegation in TextWithDash

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Darren" == Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:

    Darren> The reason is that TextWithDash has a Text object
    Darren> attribute and delegates most of its methods to that object
    Darren> via __getattr__ and __setattr__. Can anyone tell me why
    Darren> this approach was favored over deriving TextWithDash from
    Darren> Text?

I think __getattr__ and __setattr__ are mostly evil since they lead to
hard to debug code and break things like tab completion in ipython and
object inspection.  I'm +1 for refactoring TextWiithDashes to use
inheritance or otherwise expose the attributes directly.

JDH