On Jul 31, 4:08 pm, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:47:04 +0100, Tim Rowe wrote: > > >>That and the fact that I couldn't stop laughing for long enough to learn > >>any more when I read in the Pragmatic Programmer's Guide that "Ruby, > >>unlike less flexible languages, lets you alter the value of a constant." > >>Yep, as they say "Bug" = "Undocumented feature"! > > > That's no different from Python's "constant by convention". We don't even > > get a compiler warning! > > That's quite different, actually. Python doesn't claim to have > constants! Can't misinterpret what you can't have, can you? > > [Holds breath while awaiting counter-example... :] > > ~Ethan~
The convention being detailed in PEP8: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ basically, anything in ALL_CAPS is a constant, assuming you follow those style guidelines. Iain -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
