<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">It could work, but is a much worse approach IMO. The proposal discusses it here:<div class=""><a href="https://gist.github.com/lattner/b016e1cf86c43732c8d82f90e5ae5438#motivation-and-context" class="">https://gist.github.com/lattner/b016e1cf86c43732c8d82f90e5ae5438#motivation-and-context</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://gist.github.com/lattner/b016e1cf86c43732c8d82f90e5ae5438#direct-language-support-for-python-and-all-the-other-languages" class="">https://gist.github.com/lattner/b016e1cf86c43732c8d82f90e5ae5438#direct-language-support-for-python-and-all-the-other-languages</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Doug has been suggesting similar directions upthread, when he has a chance to respond to my questions, I’ll do a detailed comparison of the approaches.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Chris</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 4, 2017, at 10:05 AM, Dave DeLong <<a href="mailto:swift@davedelong.com" class="">swift@davedelong.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi Chris,<br class=""><br class="">We do the Swift integration with Objective-C via modules. Why wouldn’t that approach work with Python? Or if it would, why would we favor this dynamic member lookup over importing a Python API via a module?<br class=""><br class="">Dave<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Nov 26, 2017, at 11:04 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">I’d like to formally propose the inclusion of user-defined dynamic member lookup types.<br class=""><br class="">Here is my latest draft of the proposal:<br class=""><a href="https://gist.github.com/lattner/b016e1cf86c43732c8d82f90e5ae5438" class="">https://gist.github.com/lattner/b016e1cf86c43732c8d82f90e5ae5438</a><br class="">https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/pull/768<br class=""><br class="">An implementation of this design is available here:<br class="">https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/13076<br class=""><br class="">The implementation is straight-forward and (IMO) non-invasive in the compiler.<br class=""><br class="">-Chris<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">swift-evolution mailing list<br class="">swift-evolution@swift.org<br class="">https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>