[Shane Holloway]
When I write classes, I tend to put the public methods at the top. Utility methods used by those entry points are placed toward the bottom. In this way, I read the context of what I'm doing first, and then the details of the internal methods as I need to understand them.
Granted I could achieve this effect with::
class Before: def readIt(self, filename): def readIt(): withFile(filename, doReading)
def doReading(aFile): self.readPartA(aFile) self.readPartB(aFile) self.readPartC(aFile)
return readIt()
Which is fine with me, but the *intent* is more obfuscated than what the block construct offers. And I don't think my crew would appreciate if I did this very often. ;)
I typically solve that by making doReading() a method: class Before: def readit(self, filename): withFile(filename, self._doReading) def _doReading(self, aFile): self.readPartA(aFile) self.readPartB(aFile) self.readPartC(aFile) Perhaps not as Pure, but certainly Practical. :-) And you could even use __doReading to make it absolutely clear that doReading is a local artefact, if you care about such things. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)