Edward Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If compactness is all you want, shorten self to s. Personally I like 'me' >as it's both shorter and more vernacular: > >def do_GET (me): > me.send_response (200, "ok")
Absolutely. I've written quite a lot of code (which I wasn't expecting anyone else to maintain) using 'I' for the same reasons. Plus, it's even shorter in terms of characters (if not keystrokes), stands out reasonably well, and for how I read it makes for better English grammar (eg I.send_response(...) -- I guess it depends on whether you're doing the mental transformation of method call to message passing). I stopped doing this when I started (a) maintaining other people's Python code, and having them maintain mine and (b) using editors whose Python syntax highlighting coloured "self" as special. "Readability counts" wins over a couple of extra characters. -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ ___ | "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" \X/ | -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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