On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:50:53 -0700, flifus wrote: > > Hi all. I'm learning python these days. I'm going to use this thread > to post, from time to time, my annoyances with python. I hope someone > will clarify things to me where I have misunderstood them. > > Annoyances: > > 1. Underscores! What's the deal with that? Especially those double > underscores. The best answer I read on this is that the double > underscores denotes special methods that the interpreter may > automatically use. For example, 4+4 get expanded by the interpreter to > 4.__add__(4).
I know! It's such a trial, especially since my keyboard is broken and when I type an underscore I get a small electric shock. > 2. There are modules, there are functions, and there are classes- > methods! Wouldn't it have been easier had everything either been a > function or a class method? What really annoys me is the way function names use vowels _and_ *ow!* consonants. Some of them even use the letter Y, which sometimes is a vowel and sometimes is a consonant. That just makes me mad. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
