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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