Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Alan G Isaac a écrit : >> Pardon the vocab question; >> I'm not a computer science type. >> According to the Reference Manual, >> a class defintion has the structure:: >> >> classdef ::= "class" classname [inheritance] ":" suite >> >> What is the entire part before the suite called? > > A statement. In this case, a 'class' statement.
Actually, the class statement includes the suite as well. As far as I know, there's no official term for the first four elements of a class statement. I'd probably call it the class statement header. STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list