On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 22:28 -0500, Davor wrote: > I browsed docs a bit today, and they also confirm what I have believed - > that OO is totally secondary in Python. In fact, > object/classes/metaclasses are nothing but *dictionaries with identity* > in python. Love this approach.
I was really impressed with the design of the language, especially this bit. I first "got" it when reading Learning Python 2nd Ed (well *after* I'd been using Python for a while, but it's always good to read even intro books to fill out "obvious" things you might've missed). I love the way the same "It's just a dictionary search" principle applies to inheritance, scoped variable lookups, etc. In Python, even metaclasses just operate on the class dictionary. How pleasantly simple :-) - especially how the step from class factory to metaclass is so small and approachable. I also love the way I can chuck a bunch of objects into a functionally styled processing pipeline, say a series of functions that each just return the result of a listcomp/genexp. -- Craig Ringer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
