[Zope-dev] pythonmethods and namespaces.

[Anthony Baxter]

A note in one of Chris' tutorials reminded me of this...

the need to whack a self. on the front of every acquired attribute
inside a pythonmethod is slowly driving me insane. 

from what I can see, the issue is that Python itself won't accept 
anything but a dictionary for the namespace arguments to exec or 
eval()... right? This means you can't pass a MultiMapping to it... 
I'm assuming this is so for performance, or is it just because 
that's how it's always been? Is this likely to be changed? 

Can anyone else see a way out of this? I thought about adding 
something to MultiMappings to allow you to generate a proper dictionary
from the MM, but that would bite for performance in a big way...

Hm, might try hacking the interpreter's source to switch the test
from PyDict_Check to PyMapping_Check, see what happens...

Anthony