> I'm looking for some help in finding a term, it's not Python-specific but > does apply to some Python code. > > This is an anti-pattern to avoid. The idea is that creating a resource > ought to be the same as "turning it on", or enabling it, or similar. For > example, we don't do this in Python:
I would call it "user-mediated resource allocation" as distinct from "object-mediated" resource allocation. -- MarkJ Tacoma, Washington -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
