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Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2)

From Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2)
Date 2011-12-16 09:34 +1300
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MRAB wrote:

>> To give an analogy, it is like defining mammals as "hairy animals which
>> give birth to live young", which is correct for all mammals except for
>> monotremes, which are mammals which lay eggs.
>
> Or the naked mole-rat. Or cetaceans (whales).

The way I understand it, the main characteristic shared by
all mammals is the presence of mammary glands in females.

To wrest this back on topic, sometimes a definition
can be improved without making it any more complicated.

In the case of methods, perhaps instead of "defined inside
a class body" it could say "bound to a name in a class
namespace". That's what really matters, not how it came to
be there.

-- 
Greg

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AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Steve Howell <showell30@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-13 21:42 -0800
  Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> - 2011-12-13 23:05 -0700
  Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-12-14 01:29 -0500
    Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-12-14 08:01 +0000
      Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-14 08:08 -0800
        Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-12-14 08:28 -0800
      Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Steve Howell <showell30@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-14 09:16 -0800
      Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-12-14 18:13 -0500
        Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-12-15 05:01 +0000
          Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-12-15 05:15 +0000
            Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-12-15 07:21 +0000
            Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-12-16 09:34 +1300
          Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-12-15 07:47 +0000
          Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Steve Howell <showell30@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-15 05:35 -0800
            Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-12-16 03:34 +0000
          Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-12-15 19:39 -0500
            Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-12-16 09:22 +0000
              Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-12-16 17:05 -0500
                Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-12-17 01:26 +0000
                Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-12-17 21:09 -0500
              Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-12-16 15:26 -0800
                Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-12-17 03:05 +0000
              Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-12-16 16:34 -0800
  Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-12-14 11:02 +0100
  Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> - 2011-12-14 09:56 -0700
  Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> - 2011-12-15 06:14 +1100
  Re: AttributeError in "with" statement (3.2.2) Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently@gmail.com> - 2011-12-14 12:46 -0700

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