[Pyobjc-dev] [ pyobjc-Bugs-836336 ] Lots of typing involved for selectors that map to keywords

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Bugs item #836336, was opened at 2003-11-05 03:39
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Bob Ippolito (etrepum)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Lots of typing involved for selectors that map to keywords

Initial Comment:
For example:
>>> from Foundation import NSObject
>>> import keyword
>>> [kw for kw in keyword.kwlist if kw in 
NSObject.__dict__]
['class']

I'm not currently aware of any commonly used ObjC classes 
that use keywords for selectors.. however, that doesn't mean 
that there won't be any.  Yes, I know this example is stupid 
because there is __class__, but there isn't special treatment 
for selectors called "pass" "assert", etc.

Workarounds:
NSObject.__dict__['class']
getattr(NSObject, 'class')

Proposed solution:
NSObject.class__ ?  Appending two underscores seems like 
the logical thing to do.. prepending them makes you think 
special method or private implementation, but appending 
two could do the trick.  Since there aren't any keywords with 
underscores in them, it's pretty clear that the selector for 
this is "class".

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