use str as variable name

Mathieu Prevot mathieu.prevot at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 09:01:49 EDT 2008


2008/9/4 Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com>:
> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
>
>> You wouldn't write something like 2.__add__(3), would you ?
>
> Don't give the "it's only OO if I write obj.method(args)" crowd more bad
> ideas, please ;-)
>
> (...as Bruno implies, setattr(), len() et al can be and should be viewed as
> generic functions.  A specific Python implementation may use custom code to
> implement behaviour for a given object; behaviour that's more efficient than
> a full Python-level method call.  For example, in CPython, len(L) is about
> twice as fast as L.__len__() for built-in sequences.)

Got it. Thanks :)
Mathieu



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