> Steven Bethard wrote: > >> John J. Lee wrote: >> >>> It seems nice to do this >>> >>> class Klass: >>> >>> def _makeLoudNoise(self, *blah): >>> ... >>> >>> woof = _makeLoudNoise >> >> Out of curiosity, why do you want to do this?
I have occasionally seen this usage where it made sense. I vaguely remember cases where the same function/method met two demands that required two different names. An example would be a __special__ method also exposed publicly as 'special' ( something) without the underscores. Or some other interface required a different name. A related usage is a true specialization in which one or more parameters is given a default or constant value. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
