In <[email protected]> Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> writes:
>On Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:09:21 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: >> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 17:45:54 kj wrote: >>> In <[email protected]> Steven D'Aprano >> <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> >Why are you defining a method without a self parameter? >>> >>> Because, as I've explained elsewhere, it is not a method: it's a >>> "helper" function, meant to be called only once, within the class >>> statement itself. >> >> If the sole purpose of the function is to be used to define what will >> become a constant, why do you not just calculate the constant on your >> calculator, or at the interactive prompt, and assign it to the >> attribute, and be done with it? >> >> Why waste run time recalculating every time the programme is called? >What you are calculating might actually be quite complicated to enter as >a literal. Thank you! kynn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
