[Bf-python] Re: tp_getset conversion update

[Ken Hughes]

Stephen Swaney wrote:
> I am not claiming that the solution is poorly docuemnted or that it
> is not cleverly coded.  My position is that it is misleading.
> Doing a dir() on World will show 4 attributes:  mistype, qua, lin
> and sqr.  That does not coorespond to the actual data model, either
> internally or from the user's perspective.

As I said earlier, my goal was to maintain backwards compatibility AND 
to make the API resemble the UI.  I'd happily vote for removing 
"mistype" and making script writers rewrite everything, but I know 
better :-)

> The fundamental fact here is that qua, lin and sqa are not attributes.
> They are names for the values an attribute can take.

OK, consider this:

A user does a dir on a texture.  They will see:

     'imageFlags', .....'interpol', 'useAlpha',....

'imageFlags' is the entire bitfield variable, while 'interpol', 
'useAlpha' and others are bits within the same bitfield.

Now either:
   (1) I slipped one by you in my previous tp_getset commit and we 
should have had this discussion earlier
   (2) You're not being consistent, or
   (3) We disagree on what "value an attribute can take" means.

???

Ken