On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Rotwang <sg...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > In general there's no reason why > >>>> a.method(arguments) >>>> print a > > will print the same thing as > >>>> print a.method(arguments) > > since a method doesn't assign the value it returns to the instance on which > it is called; what it does to the instance and what it returns are two > completely different things.
It wouldn't ever assign its return value to the instance, but it might return self, which allows method chaining. Can be very handy, though I don't know off-hand how common it is in Python. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
