Terry Reedy wrote: > "OKB (not okblacke)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [...] > > The underlying answer to the original question is that while Pyt;hon is > object-based, it is not strictly OO but is intentionally multiparadigmatic > and will remain so. For instance, no one will be forced to replace the > procedural expression 'a+b' with the strict OO equivalent 'a .__add__(b)'. > But anyone is free to do so in their own code, just as with ob.__len__() > for len(ob).
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