Bjoern Schliessmann: > Is there any particular reason why it should be a method? > > [..] > > To make a long story short: Most methods do specific things with > objects; but len is a common function to get a simple property of > an object.
You said it. IMHO it really could be a *property*, say `object.len`. It doesn't do something on the object, but rather gives some information about its "state". -- Thomas Wittek Web: http://gedankenkonstrukt.de/ Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 0xF534E231 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list