2008/9/4 Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >> You wouldn't write something like 2.__add__(3), would you ? > > Don't give the "it's only OO if I write obj.method(args)" crowd more bad > ideas, please ;-) > > (...as Bruno implies, setattr(), len() et al can be and should be viewed as > generic functions. A specific Python implementation may use custom code to > implement behaviour for a given object; behaviour that's more efficient than > a full Python-level method call. For example, in CPython, len(L) is about > twice as fast as L.__len__() for built-in sequences.)
Got it. Thanks :) Mathieu -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
