Paul Boddie wrote: > > I don't think I've ever seen anyone advocating calling a function like > > getattr(obj "foo" + "bar")(). > > >From Lib/compiler/visitor.py: > > meth = getattr(self.visitor, 'visit' + className, 0) > > Later on: > > meth(node, *args) > > Of course, you can drop the "visit" prefix and make the mechanism more > predictable, but a search on the standard library for getattr produces > a lot of evidence against your assertion.
if you read Jay's assertion in context, your "refutation" strikes me as somewhat silly. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list