On Apr 25, 11:50 pm, [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. For example, 4+4 get expanded by the interpreter to > 4.__add__(4). >
I can understand this one. I don't have a problem with this myself, but a lot of people find the proliferation of underscores in Python bewildering. All I can say about it is that you soon get used to it - and the separation is a good enough reason for me. Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/ironpython/index.shtml > 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? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
