Steve Holden wrote: > [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: >> 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? >> > Actually, it's really simple. When you get right down to it, > *everything* in *every* current implementation of Python is either a one > or a zero. Would you like us to make it all zeros? > > Perhaps you should meditate on the idea to the concept of "sufficient > and necessary complexity" ...
Here is something on which to meditate: classes become functions when you get the quantum mechanics just so! py> class add(object): ... def __new__(self, a, b): ... return a + b ... py> c = add(3, 1) py> c 4 py> type(c) <type 'int'> py> add <class '__main__.add'> py> def add(a, b): ... return a + b ... py> add(3, 1) 4 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
