April 19, 2005
9:47 p.m.
Guido van Rossum wrote:
As I said before, I'm not sure why keeping get_foo etc. out of the class namespace is such a big deal. In fact, I like having them there (sometimes they can even be handy, e.g. you might be able to pass the unbound get_foo method as a sort key).
Not to mention that it's possible to override get_foo in subclasses if done right ... Two approaches are here: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/408713 Tim Delaney