"benhoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Hi guys, | | I've been using Python for some time now, and am very impressed with | its lack of red tape and its clean syntax -- both probably due to the | BDFL's ability to know when to say "no". | | Most of the things that "got me" initially have been addressed in | recent versions of Python, or are being addressed in Python 3000. But | it looks like the double underscores are staying as is. This is | probably a good thing unless there are better alternatives, but ... | | Is it just me that thinks "__init__" is rather ugly?
No, the reservered special names are supposed to be ugly ;-) -- or at least to stand out. However, since special methods are almost always called indirectly by syntax and not directly, only the class writer or reader, but not users, generally see them. | Not to mention "if __name__ == '__main__': ..."? Someone (perhaps me) once suggested on pydev using 'main' instead, but a couple of people piped back that they regularly name their main module (as opposed to the startup script) 'main'. So much for that idea. 'main__' might not look as bad, but anything other that '__main__' introduces an inconsistency with the reserved name rule. Changing '__name__' has the same pair of problems (conflict with user names and consistency). So I decided to live with the current incantation. Terry Jan Reedy | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
