Steven Bethard a écrit : > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >> Alan G Isaac a écrit : >> >>> Pardon the vocab question; >>> I'm not a computer science type. >>> According to the Reference Manual, >>> a class defintion has the structure:: >>> >>> classdef ::= "class" classname [inheritance] ":" suite >>> >>> What is the entire part before the suite called? >> >> >> A statement. In this case, a 'class' statement. > > > Actually, the class statement includes the suite as well.
Well, technically, yes, but from a practical POV I'd say the "suite" is the class's body. Hmmm... Well, ok, you're right. Me go to bed. > As far as I > know, there's no official term for the first four elements of a class > statement. I'd probably call it the class statement header. > > STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list