What is not objects in Python?

Bruno Desthuilliers bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr
Sun Sep 28 15:46:13 EDT 2008


process a écrit :
> I have heard some criticism about Python, that it is not fully object-
> oriented.
> 
> What is not an object in Python?

names and statements.

> Why isn't len implemented as a str.len and list.len method instead of
> a len(list) function?

See other answers here about how the len(obj) is implemented. But 
anyway: OO and the dotted notation are totally orthogonal. The 
message(obj) is by no mean less OO than the obj.method() one - even more 
FWIW, since the notion of 'method' is mostly an implementation artifact. 
  The key conceps in OO are "object" and "message", not "dot" and "method".



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