Matthew Woodcraft a écrit : > Cristian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> To me, the biggest setback for new programmers is the different >> syntax Python has for creating functions. Instead of the common (and >> easy to grasp) syntax of foo = bar Python has the def foo(): syntax. > > [...] > >> in a program like Python there doesn't seem to be any other reason to >> have it. > > One reason for the different syntax is that functions, unlike most > other objects, know their own names (which can be shown in tracebacks > and the like).
Nope. They know *one* of their names - the one they've been given when first instanciated. Which may or not be the name used to get at them... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
