Do pythons like sugar?

[Laura Creighton]

Ben Leslie wanted to know the difference between 'clever' and 'wise'.

Andrew Dalke wrote:
> Afanasiy wrote:
> >>A few languages provide syntax sugar for dealing with
> >>this by allowing you to localize the class scope.
> >>
> >>Does Python? eg. `with self do:`
> 
> > So the answer is a definitive no? I want to do things as I have them,
> > I don't want to change my design just to be able to type 'self' less.
> 
> It's a definite no.  From previous accounts, said sugar is hiding
> rat poison.  It's advantages are slight to its disadvantages.  Eg,
> for your case it would have hid a poor implementation rather than
> yield a better one.
> 
> When I do a lot of "self." references it's mostly with a set of
> initializations.  In that case I just leave "self." in my paste
> buffer.
> 
> > Is there any tricky one-liner that brings object members in scope?
> 
> Yes but I won't tell.  You shouldn't use it.

Afanasiy is looking to be clever here.  Andrew Dalke doesn't think that
it is wise.

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Laura Creighton