As I remember the webmaster@ discussions, Mats did go so far as to start a re-write of the classes section, but it never got as far as a PR. Kind regards, Steve On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 5:51 PM Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
Ouch, that's bad. It seems the class tutorial could use an overhaul.
We might also cut a few areas where we go unnecessarily deep (e.g. position-only parameters).
On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 9:31 AM Mats Wichmann <mats@wichmann.us> wrote:
On 11/6/20 9:07 AM, Marco Sulla wrote:
I started to learn Python with the tutorial, and two things come into my mind: 1. The class section seems quite difficult and intimidating for a novel, while classes in Python are really more simple than in other OO languages
Indeed - we got some complaints about the class chapter at the webmaster@python.org alias a while back. The introductory section repeatedly mentions Modula-3 and Smalltalk, languages which more recently minted programmers aren't very likely to be familiar with, which makes it a bit of a daunting beginning - this is the one chapter that could really use a bit of rework, IMO.
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