pre-PEP for optional 'pass'

[Duncan Booth]

philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk (phil hunt) wrote in 
news:slrnabmoci.dhk.philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk:

> (1) Convenience
> 
> I would like to be able to write as code classes and functions 
> without implementing the body to start with, e.g.:
> 
> 
> class MyClass:
>    def __init__(self, x, ,y, z):
>    def getTwiddle(self):
>    def setTwiddle(self, twiddle):
> 
> 
> At the moment if I want to do this I have to put pass in and then 
> take them out again. A minor inconvenience, to be sure, but one that 
> niggles slightly due to the highly exploratory style of coding I 
> often use.
You should always head each method and class with a docstring.
Apart from being incredibly useful when you come back to the methods some 
months later and cannot remember what they did, this has exactly the effect 
you wanted of making 'pass' optional:

class MyClass:
   '''A simple class'''
   def __init__(self, x, ,y, z): '''MyClass constructor'''
   def getTwiddle(self): '''Get a twiddle'''
   def setTwiddle(self, twiddle): '''Set a twiddle'''

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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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