Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.022 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.96; '*S*': 0.00; 'subject:Python': 0.05; 'python': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:Objects': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'chris': 0.28; 'class': 0.29; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; "can't": 0.34; 'doing': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'mark': 0.38; 'things': 0.38; 'shows': 0.38; 'there,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'most': 0.61; 'is.': 0.62; 'necessarily': 0.63; 'different': 0.63; 'natural': 0.65; 'remember,': 0.93 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Objects in Python Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:13:29 +0100 References: <18409992-1e28-4721-8e64-60c69668da4e@googlegroups.com> <12ee0624-f523-4cf9-b46c-292315ef789e@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-92-24-123-14.ppp.as43234.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120821-0, 21/08/2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1345651903 news.xs4all.nl 6872 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:39134 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:27651 On 22/08/2012 16:47, Chris Angelico wrote: > > For what you're doing there, though, a class is overkill. Remember, > Python isn't Java; the most natural way to do everything isn't > necessarily to write a class that unpacks things and packs them up > again in a different way. > > ChrisA > This shows just how poor the Python documentation is. I can't find the "overcoming brainwashing" section anywhere!!! -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence.