Which more Pythonic - self.__class__ or type(self)?

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2023-03-03 13:51:11 -0500, avi.e.gross at gmail.com wrote:
> I do not buy into any concept about something being pythonic or not.
> 
> Python has grown too vast and innovated quite a  bit, but also borrowed from
> others and vice versa.
> 
> There generally is no universally pythonic way nor should there be. Is there
> a C way

Oh, yes. Definitely.

> and then a C++ way and an R way or JavaScript

JavaScript has a quite distinctive style. C++ is a big language (maybe
too big for a single person to grok completely) so there might be
several "dialects". I haven't seen enough R code to form an opinion.

> or does only python a language with a philosophy of what is the
> pythonic way?

No. Even before Python existed there was the adage "a real programmer
can write FORTRAN in any language", indicating that idiomatic usage of a
language is not governed by syntax and library alone, but there is a
cultural element: People writing code in a specific language also read
code by other people in that language, so they start imitating each
other, just like speakers of natural languages imitate each other.
Someone coming from another language will often write code which is
correct but un-idiomatic, and you can often guess which language they
come from (they are "writing FORTRAN in Python"). Also quite similar to
natural languages where you can guess the native language of an L2
speaker by their accent and phrasing.

        hp

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