On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 09:05 -0700, Charles Fox wrote: > when you are implementing a model from a published > paper, the variables tend to be single greek or roman letter names, > possibly with subscripts and superscripts, and it helps if the name > you see on the screen is the same as the name on the paper, as is the > case in matlab. You want the equation on screen to look as similar to > the one on the paper as possible, especially if its going to be read > by another programmer who is familiar with the paper.
In that case, you could/should move the calculations into a function that uses local variables, instead of a method that uses instance attributes. Accessing local variables is faster than accessing instance attributes, and you get rid of the annoying self prefix. -- Carsten Haese http://informixdb.sourceforge.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list