On 10/29/07, brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will len(a_string) become a_string.len()? I was just reading > > http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html > > One of the criticisms of Python compared to other OO languages is that > it isn't OO enough or as OO as others or that it is inconsistent. And > little things such as this seem to support those arguments. Not that it > matters really... just seems that classes with methods used in a more > consistent manner would be more appropriate in an OO langauage. Is there > a reason that len cannot be a method? > > a_string.lower() makes sense, as does a_string.split(), > a_string.strip()... why not a_string.len()?
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