On 2011-08-29, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In my house, I'm dad. In my chorus, I'm Neil. In town I'm Neil >> Cerutti, and in the global scope I have to use a meaningless >> unique identifier. Hopefully no Python namespace ever gets that >> big. > > Chorus? Does that imply that you sing? Neat :)
Wait... not all Python programmers sing? > What you have, I think, is a module named Cerutti, in which you > have a class of which Neil is an instance. Inside method > functions, you can be referenced by "self" (which is to code > what pronouns are to English); outside of them, you are > referred to as Neil; and outside the module, Cerutti.Neil is > the cleanest way to reference you. But your name is still Neil, > no matter how you're referenced. The problem with that scenario is that, in real life, there's more than one Cerutti.Neil, and they like to move around. ;) -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
