Dunder docs again (was Pythonic style)

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 07:45:41 EDT 2016


On Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 4:46:43 PM UTC+5:30, MRAB wrote:
> On 2016-04-28 06:16, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > On Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 9:26:21 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >> My rule of thumb is: Dunders are for defining, not for calling. It's
> >> not a hard-and-fast rule, but it'll get you through 99%+ of
> >> situations.
> >
> > Neat and clever.
> > Should get in the docs somewhere
> >
> Is it worthy of being in the Zen of Python?

:-)
Thats more than I intended... But heck why not?!
I find that dunder methods are poorly documented, especially when compared to
their 'pythonic-ness'.
Ive spoken of this on and off, eg https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2015-May/691329.html



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