[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
That's right. But what's the annoyance here? It's a clear seperation. A bigger annoyance would be if the method name were, e. g., "add". Now you define your own class, don't think about this and define a method "add" yourself, and you wonder why your class behaves strangely. > 2. There are modules, there are functions, and there are classes- > methods! You forgot static methods and types. And all of them are objects. > Wouldn't it have been easier had everything either been a > function or a class method? IMHO no (this isn't Java). Why should I have to define a class if I just code a little script with a few functions? That would be forcing the programmer into using a programming paradigm. Will you ask why there is no StringBuffer in Python? :) Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #385: Dyslexics retyping hosts file on servers -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
