James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I like this one for some reason. Just the "using self" would save > hella typing in a lot of classes. I would favor a convention with > leading dots to disambiguate from other variables. This wouldn't > conflict with, say, floats, because variable names can't begin with a > number.
I can't see how it is going to save you any typing over what you can already do. The suggested example: self.setFixedSize(200, 120) self.quit = QtGui.QPushButton("Quit", self) self.quit.setGeometry(62, 40, 75, 30) self.quit.setFont(QtGui.QFont("Times", 18, QtGui.QFont.Bold)) self.connect(self.quit, QtCore.SIGNAL("clicked()"), QtGui.qApp, QtCore.SLOT("quit()")) (259 characters including newlines but not leading indents). would become: using self: .setFixedSize(200,120) .quit = QtGui.QPushButton("Quit", self) using quit: .setGeometry(62, 40, 75, 30) .setFont(QtGui.QFont("Times", 18, QtGui.QFont.Bold)) .connect(self.quit, QtCore.SIGNAL("clicked()"), QtGui.qApp, QtCore.SLOT("quit()")) (251 characters including newlines but not leading indents). If you are going to reference self.quit a lot of times then it makes sense to also assign it to a local variable and then you already get even fewer characters (239): self.setFixedSize(200, 120) q = self.quit = QtGui.QPushButton("Quit", self) q.setGeometry(62, 40, 75, 30) f = QtGui.QFont q.setFont(f("Times", 18, f.Bold)) self.connect(q, QtCore.SIGNAL("clicked()"), QtGui.qApp, QtCore.SLOT("quit()")) Assigning 's=self' would save even more typing, but there are limits to how unreadable you want it. Using local variables also means you don't have any ambiguity and can use a variety of such shorthands interchangeably (e.g. q and f above). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list