> To demonstrate that the person who wrote this code was not a good Python > > programmer. I hope it wasn't you :-) This person obviously had a very > > basic, and confused, understanding of Python. > > > > And, quite frankly, was probably not a very good programmer of *any* > > language: > > > > - poor use of Hungarian notation for variable names; > > - pointless pre-declaration of values; > > - redundant comments that don't explain anything. > > > > If that code came from the code-base you are maintaining, no wonder you > > don't think much of Python! That looks like something I would expect to > > see at the DailyWTF.
Hi. Steve, I don't know where you have been over the past couple of days but it is widely known (if the thread title is any indication) that I am indeed very new to Python, but not new to programming in general. To give a bit of background where I found __str__, I am using a Python IDE called PyScripter. Its Intellisense is full of methods starting and ending with "__", hence the question. Regarding Hungarian notation, I don't use it in any other language but Python and JS. Call it poor, but it helps me to remember what type a variable is. The redundant comments serve the same purpose. As for "pointless predeclaration", it helps me know where in the code I first started using the variable, so I know there are no references to it before then. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
