optional pass? (was Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Mar 26))

[Tim Peters]

[Alexandre Fayolle]
> Why don't you put a docstring ? It will help you document precisely what
> you had in mind when writing the class, and you can keep it when you
> actually write the code.

[phil hunt]
> 3 reasons.

Note that this is also a docstring:

    ''

It's two fewer characters than "pass", and right next to the colon key for
ease of rapid typing <wink>.

> ...
> class Foo:
>    def method1(self):
>    def method2(self):
>    def method3(self):
>    def method4(self):
>    def method5(self):

You realize there's no chance Guido will go for this, right?  It looks like
5 errors of omission.