On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:54:23 +1300, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: > > > True, but all those underscores are a PITA to type and read for > > methods that are meant to be called directly. > > Matter of taste, I suppose. I don't find them all that > bothersome, and a double underscore name stands out very > clearly as being part of the infrastructure rather than > something user-defined.
But directly calling a __xxx__ method in Python is a very unusual thing to do. It would be extremely odd to have that be the expected way to call a method on a class. -- R. David Murray www.bitdance.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
