[Python-Dev] x.len() instead of len(x) in Py3.0

Oleg Broytmann phd at mail2.phd.pp.ru
Sun Mar 5 20:17:34 CET 2006


On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 06:48:22PM +0000, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> Oleg Broytmann <phd at oper.phd.pp.ru> wrote:
> > What are disadvantages of a direct .len() instead of .__len__()?
> 
> I can think of a few arguments against getting rid of double
> underscores in general.

   The discussion is about moving from len(sequence) to sequence.len(), not
from __len__() to .len().

Oleg.
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