Jordan wrote:
Except when it comes to Classes. I added some classes to code that had previously just been functions, and you know what I did - or rather, forgot to do? Put in the 'self'. In front of some of the variable accesses, but more noticably, at the start of *every single method argument list.* This cannot be any longer blamed as a hangover from Java - I've written a ton more code, more recently in Python than in Java or any other OO language. What's more, every time I go back to Python after a break of more than about a week or so, I start making this 'mistake' again. The perennial justification for this 'feature' of the language? That old Python favourite, "Explicit is better than implicit."
Do you seriously think that Python is designed by mindless application of a set of humorous and somewhat self-deprecating observations posted to a newsgroup a number of years ago? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
