On Saturday, October 5, 2013 9:04:25 PM UTC-7, John Ladasky wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
>
> I'm trying to make some of Python class definitions behave like the ones I
> find in professional packages, such as Matplotlib. A Matplotlib class can
> often have a very large number of arguments -- some o
Wow, Steven, that was a great, detailed reply. I hope you will forgive me for
shortcutting to the end, because I've been hacking away for a few hours and
came to this very conclusion:
On Monday, October 7, 2013 2:13:10 PM UTC-7, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> In general, you should aim to use either
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 09:26:51 -0700, John Ladasky wrote:
> Thanks, everyone, for your replies. Perhaps I have complicated things
> unnecessarily? I was just trying to do some error-checking on the
> arguments supplied to the class constructor. Perhaps Python already
> implements automatically wh
On Saturday, October 5, 2013 9:04:25 PM UTC-7, John Ladasky wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
>
> I'm trying to make some of Python class definitions behave like the ones I
> find in professional packages, such as Matplotlib. A Matplotlib class can
> often have a very large number of arguments -- some o
On Monday, October 7, 2013 9:26:51 AM UTC-7, I wrote:
> Here is one more detail which may be relevant. The base class for the family
> of classes I am developing is a numpy.ndarray. The numpy.ndarray is a C
> extension type (and if I understand correctly, that means it is immutable by
> ordina
Thanks, everyone, for your replies. Perhaps I have complicated things
unnecessarily? I was just trying to do some error-checking on the arguments
supplied to the class constructor. Perhaps Python already implements
automatically what I am trying to accomplish manually? I'll tinker around wit
> What makes Matplotlib so professional?
>
> Assuming that "professional" packages necessarily do the right thing is
> an unsafe assumption. Many packages have *lousy* interfaces.
Not that it's a complete explanation for matplotlib's interfaces, but
it did start out as a Python-based replacement f
On Sat, 05 Oct 2013 21:04:25 -0700, John Ladasky wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to make some of Python class definitions behave like the ones
> I find in professional packages, such as Matplotlib. A Matplotlib class
> can often have a very large number of arguments -- some of which may be
> o
On Saturday, October 5, 2013 9:04:25 PM UTC-7, John Ladasky wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
>
>
> I'm trying to make some of Python class definitions behave like the ones I
> find in professional packages, such as Matplotlib. A Matplotlib class can
> often have a very large number of arguments -- some o
John Ladasky wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to make some of Python class definitions behave like the ones I
> find in professional packages, such as Matplotlib. A Matplotlib class can
> often have a very large number of arguments -- some of which may be
> optional, some of which will assume d
Hi folks,
I'm trying to make some of Python class definitions behave like the ones I find
in professional packages, such as Matplotlib. A Matplotlib class can often
have a very large number of arguments -- some of which may be optional, some of
which will assume default values if the user does
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