Digging up a week-old email from Bob:
On 15/10/12 08:37, bob gailer wrote:
On 10/14/2012 8:34 AM, Osemeka Osuagwu wrote:
except:
print 'Cannot display Grid'
In addition to Steve's comment I add my own gripe:
When delivering an error message tell us WHY. I have seen too many
messages cannot
Hello people,
Firstly, thank you so much for all the assistance you provide so
selflessly through this medium.
I come from a functional programming background and have only recently
become serious with OOP.
For practice, I tried to implement John Conways 'Game of Life' without
a GUI and ran into
On 14/10/12 23:34, Osemeka Osuagwu wrote:
In the code below, I can't seem to get around calling an instance
method (__reality_check()) from within a class method (update_grid()),
Of course you can't :)
Since the class method has no access to the instance, it cannot call
instance methods,
On 14/10/12 13:34, Osemeka Osuagwu wrote:
I understand instance, static and class methods but I'm still
struggling with when and where they should be used.
You can pretty much ignore static methods, they were almost an
historic 'accident' superseded, in most cases, by class methods. The
On 10/14/2012 8:34 AM, Osemeka Osuagwu wrote:
except:
print 'Cannot display Grid'
In addition to Steve's comment I add my own gripe:
When delivering an error message tell us WHY. I have seen too many
messages cannot do xxx with no information that
