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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: object.enable() anti-pattern
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 11:43:42 +1200
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Wayne Werner wrote:
> You don't ever want a class that has functions that need to be called in 
> a certain order to *not* crash.

That seems like an overly broad statement. What
do you think the following should do?

    f = open("myfile.dat")
    f.close()
    data = f.read()

-- 
Greg