Language question

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <380CE825.7676C6F3 at bioreason.com>,
Brian Kelley  <kelley at bioreason.com> wrote:
>This question actually comes up due to accident (bug?)  Here is the
>scenario
>
>class foo:
>      """insert foo here"""
>
>def bar(foo):
>      """this should really be class bar(foo):  Insert bar here"""
>
>As far as python is concerned, this is prefectly legal except that the
>user of bar will probably get None for their troubles.  That is foobar =
>bar() is the same thing as foobar = None.

In addition to Gordon's comments, note very carefully that you have two
different "foo" here.  This would be perfectly legal, for example:

class foo:
  pass
def bar(foo):
  return foo*2
print bar(2)
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