Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Martin P. Hellwig a écrit : >>I created a class which creates a relative unique id string, now my >>program just works fine and as expected but somehow I get the feeling >>that I misused the __repr__ since I guess people expect to 'execute' a >>function in an instance instead of using it's representation string of >>the instance itself, could you elaborate whether you find this bad >>practice and if yes what would have been a better way to do it? > > Why not just use the call operator instead ? ie: > > >>> id = IDGenerator(...) > >>> id() > 01_20060424_151903_1 > >>> id() > 01_20060424_151905_2
because that shadows a builtin? sorry, could not resist :-) Cheers, Carl Friedrch Bolz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
