<grocery_stocker – Samstag, 2. Mai 2009 17:30> > On May 2, 4:14 am, Sebastian Wiesner <basti.wies...@gmx.net> wrote: >> <Steven D'Aprano>> >> > In either case, I think you're picking a nit so small that it isn't >> > actually there. All objects are instances (in Python), and all >> > instances are objects. >> >> Exactly, so strictly seen, "Request object" could possibly refer to the >> urllib2.Request class itself. I guess, the OP would prefer the term >> "Request instance", emphasizing, that an instance of the request class >> has to be passed, not he class itself. > > Yes, I personally think that the term "Request instance" would have > made it much clearer to us people that have never taken a computer > science class in our lives.
Btw, I should have said, that I don't share your objection: Imho you don't need computer science lessons, but only common sense to understand, that passing the class object itself doesn't really make sense in this context ;) -- Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters. (Rosa Luxemburg) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list