data attributes override method attributes?

[Terry Reedy]

On 9/25/2012 11:03 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Peter Otten <__peter__ at web.de> wrote:
>> To me
>>
>> "Data attributes override method attributes with the same name"
>>
>> implies that data attributes take precedence over method attributes, not
>> that they replace them only when there is an assignment of data after the
>> method definition.
>>
>> I would even consider replacing the whole paragraph
>> with something like
>>
>> "Data attributes and method attributes share the same namespace. To avoid
>> name conflicts consider using verbs for methods and nouns for data
>> attributes"
>
> Instance attributes override (shadow) class attributes.

except for (some? all?) special methods

> Since methods
> tend to be on the class and data tends to be on the instance, the
> original sentence does make some sense.

but it *is* wrong


  The section is talking about
> conventions, so it's not inherently wrong,

The suggestion to Capitalize method names and prefix data names with '_' 
are wrong with respect to the style guide.

  but perhaps just needs a
> comment about methods not usually being attached to the instance.
>
> ChrisA
>


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Terry Jan Reedy