Distinguishing attributes and methods

[MonkeeSage]

On Dec 8, 12:56 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
<bdesth.quelquech... at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
> MonkeeSage a écrit :
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> > On Dec 8, 2:10 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_... at gmx.net> wrote:
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> >>On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:19:40 -0800, tjhnson wrote:
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> >>>With properties, attributes and methods seem very similar.  I was
> >>>wondering what techniques people use to give clues to end users as to
> >>>which 'things' are methods and which are attributes.
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> >>Methods are attributes.  So the decision is easy -- everything on an
> >>object is an attribute.  ;-)
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> >>Ciao,
> >>        Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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> > I think he means callable attributes (methods) and non-callable
> > attributes (variables).
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> callable attributes are not necessarily methods, and are still
> 'variables' anyway.

I think it muddies the water to say that a.a() and a.a are the same
thing--obviously they are not. In the common case, the first is a
method, and the second is a variable. Yes, you can do silly stuff,
such that this rule will not hold, but in general it does. Or am I
wrong?

Regards,
Jordan