[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : (snip) > > Well, why do some things in the library have to be functions, and > other things have to be class methods? > Why aren't they all just either functions or class methods? like > perhaps ruby. >
If I tell you that Python's functions are in fact static methods of their module, will this make you happy ? Because, while not technically true, this is conceptually equivalent. Or if you prefer to stick to technical truth, python's methods are nothing more than a thin decorator around a function object (yes, Python's functions *are* objects) - so in fact, there are *only* functions - sometimes wrapped into a method object, sometimes not, depending on how you access them. In both cases, the fact that you don't have enough knowledge of a language to understand it's design, and/or the fact that this design is different from other one you already know, doesn't by itself make this design an "annoyance". -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
