On May 2, 4:14 am, Sebastian Wiesner <basti.wies...@gmx.net> wrote: > <Steven D'Aprano>> I don't understand your objection. Is it that the > documentation calls it > > Request instead of urllib2.Request? Or that it calls it an object instead > > of an instance? > > I guess the latter ... > > > In either case, I think you're picking a nit so small that it isn't > > actually there. All objects are instances (in Python), and all instances > > are objects. > > Exactly, so strictly seen, "Request object" could possibly refer to the > urllib2.Request class itself. I guess, the OP would prefer the term > "Request instance", emphasizing, that an instance of the request class has > to be passed, not he class itself. >
Yes, I personally think that the term "Request instance" would have made it much clearer to us people that have never taken a computer science class in our lives. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
