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On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Observe:
> =A0def $method(self):pass
> =A0self.@instanceveriable
> =A0self.@@classvariable

Are you deliberately inverting what PHP does, with $variablename?
(Incidentally, that's one of the things that irks me about PHP -
adorned variable names.)

In any case: Python does not distinguish between functions and other
sorts of objects. It makes no sense to adorn things in this way.

ChrisA