On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Ben Finney wrote: > John O'Hagan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > insofar as one is only interested in accessing methods, is there an > > difference in efficiency (for large enough number of methods and > > arguments) between > > > > a) passing all arguments to __init__() and accessing them via self > > within individual methods: > > > > class = Class(all_class_args) > > class.method_a() > > class.method_b() > > ... > > or > > > > b) passing the arguments needed by each method when it is called on > > an instance: > > > > class = Class() > > class.method_a(a_args) > > class.method_b(b_args) > > ... > > Note that you've chosen confusing names for the above. When you call > the class, the return value will be an *instance of* the class, so > binding the name ‘class’ to that return value has two problems: it's a > misnomer, and it's a syntax error because ‘class’ is a reserved word.
I know, sorry, just a simplified example...s/class/class_instance/. John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
