[Python-ideas] Method chaining notation

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Feb 21 22:57:26 CET 2014


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

> Off the top of my head, I cannot think of any methods that return self.
> (If there are some, someone please remind or inform me.)
>

That's because I don't like this pattern. :-)

But there's some code in the stdlib that uses it (IIRC Eric Raymond was a
fan), and I'm sure there's lots of 3rd party Python code too.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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