function v. method

danielx danielwong at berkeley.edu
Sat Jul 22 15:30:30 EDT 2006


Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> danielx wrote:
> > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> >
> >>danielx wrote:
> >>
> (snip)
> >>>
> >>>Obviously, such things would be omitted from your docs, but users also
> >>>learn by interacting with Python, which is really one of Python's great
> >>>virtues. When supporting documents aren't sufficient to learn an api
> >>>(I'm sure this never happens, so just humor me), you can always turn to
> >>>interactive Python.
> >>
> >>...and source code...
> >
> >
> > *shudders* What happened to all the goodness of abstraction?
>
> Compared to machine language, Python source code is really abstration.
>

And machine language is an abstraction of pushing electrons around
circuits. I'm not sure I see your point, unless it is simply that
Python is easier than asm.

> --
> bruno desthuilliers
> python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
> p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"




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