hanumizzle wrote: > Not sure exactly what is going on / being argued about in this > thread
I'm describing best practices based on long experience of using and developing and teaching and writing about Python stuff. Others have other priorities, it seems. > This doesn't say anything positive or negative about the practice in > question The tutorial tends to describe mechanisms, not best practices, and it also assumes prior programming experience. After all, basic stuff like "minimize coupling" and "don't depend on implementation artifacts" apply to all software engineering, not just Python. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
