[PEAK] Live attributes

[Ian Bicking]

A while ago I posted about a problem with descriptors not knowing what 
class or name they were bound to: 
http://blog.ianbicking.org/descriptor-nit.html

Phillip, you noted that PEAK had something like this, IActiveDescriptor 
and activateInClass.  Anyway, I'm finally getting around to refactoring 
SQLObject to do this, and I don't want to just invent my own names, and 
since I find this basic pattern really useful it would be nice to have 
some cross-library convention on how to do this.  OTOH, I don't want to 
add a PyProtocols/adaptation requirement to SQLObject for this small 
feature.  Somehow activateInClass doesn't seem magic enough without 
adaptation, though at the same time maybe it doesn't matter; is there 
really likely to be a name conflict.  OTOH, without adaptation it's only 
  outwardly similar to PEAK, it's certainly not a drop-in replacement.

Any thoughts?

-- 
Ian Bicking  /  ianb at colorstudy.com  /  http://blog.ianbicking.org