[Numpy-discussion] question about optimizing

[Charles R Harris]

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:18 PM, Charles R Harris
> <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Base classes also tend to have limited functionality that will be common
> to
> > all derived types. The object type in Python has only a few methods and
> > attributes:
> >
> > In [4]: dir(object)
> > Out[4]:
> > ['__class__',
> >  '__delattr__',
> >  '__doc__',
> >  '__getattribute__',
> >  '__hash__',
> >  '__init__',
> >  '__new__',
> >  '__reduce__',
> >  '__reduce_ex__',
> >  '__repr__',
> >  '__setattr__',
> >  '__str__']
> >
> > And overloading any of these is likely to cause trouble.
>
> Nonsense. *Most* of those are intended to be overloaded. Especially on
> object.
>
> --
> Robert Kern
>
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> enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
> though it had an underlying truth."
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