On 11May2012 15:40, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: | On 11/05/2012 15:32, Andreas Tawn wrote: | > It's also helpful to not have to display every attribute, of which there may be dozens. | | Do I detect a code smell here?
Not necessarily. (Well, yeah, "dozens" may indicate time to partition stuff.) My "O" class (back in the thread) deliberately shows only the [a-z]* attributes so the user gets the public object state without the noise of private attributes. For __repr__ I might print everything. Haven't gone that far yet. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ That is 27 years ago, or about half an eternity in computer years. - Alan Tibbetts -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
