Chris Gonnerman <ch...@gonnerman.org> writes: > On 08/28/2011 07:26 PM, Niklas Rosencrantz wrote: > > class A(BaseHandler, blobstore_handlers.BlobstoreUploadHandler): > > def is_submitter_human(self):
> is_submitter_human() isn't a function, it's a method. No, that's not true and may lead to future confusion. Rather, it is a function *and* a method. Not all functions are methods, but all methods are functions. > Methods are always called with a reference to the class instance Also not true, but perhaps too subtle an issue to explore in this thread. > Though I've hacked it out, your code sample includes calls to other > methods of the object, by calling self.methodname(). Without the first > parameter, how else would you do it? Yes, that's exactly the reason. Thanks. -- \ “A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of | `\ five.” —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
