Hi Steve and others, On 2010-10-25 06:08, Steve Holden wrote: > On 10/24/2010 11:42 PM, Chris Rebert wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 4:11 PM, James Mills >> <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote: >>> I don't agree but anyway... I've just not seen it commonly used >>> amongst python programmers. >> >> If Python wanted to encourage method-chaining-style, then list.sort(), >> list.reverse(), and several other built-in type methods would (ala >> Ruby) return self rather than None. Since they don't, and since >> "uncommon idiom" is a near-oxymoron, I think we can safely conclude >> that method chaining isn't idiomatic in Python. Not that it doesn't >> have specialized uses though (See asterisk note). >> > Yes, the Twisted guys use method chaining a lot - it's definitely > idiomatic in that framework.
It's also used in the pstats module: http://docs.python.org/library/profile.html#instant-user-s-manual But I agree with others that it doesn't seem to be a typical Python idiom. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
