[Python-Dev] Issue10403 - using 'attributes' instead of members in documentation

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jun 27 03:32:32 CEST 2011


On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> or the 'attribute' substitution everywhere makes sense?
>
> No.
>
> My strong history-based opinions ;-).

+1 to what Terry said.

"Members" is a historical relic that is best replaced by "attributes"
or "data attributes" if we want to explicitly exclude methods for some
reason. "Methods" is a subset of attributes that explicitly excludes
data attributes.

Cheers,
Nick.

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