[Python-ideas] Object grabbing

[Robert van Geel]

On 5/2/2016 8:50 AM, Pavol Lisy wrote:
> I just tried to extrapolate this idea a little bit.
>
> I searched for sources with many "self" in one line and found this
> function in mpmath/calculus/extrapolation.py:
>
>      def factor_sidi(self, i):
>          return (self.theta + self.n - 1) * (self.theta + self.n - 2) /
> self.ctx.mpf((self.theta + 2 * self.n - i - 2) * (self.theta + 2 *
> self.n - i - 3))
>
>      def factor_sidi(using self, i):
>          return (.theta + .n - 1) * (.theta + .n - 2) /
> .ctx.mpf((.theta + 2 * .n - i - 2) * (.theta + 2 * .n - i - 3))
>
> What dou you think?

As stated in another post, I'm personally used to this syntax because I 
used to work in a language that has this (Visual Foxpro) so for me it 
feels logic and natural hence 'pythonic'.
I can imagine that for the python eye this currently looks ... off... 
but the whole idea is that the construct is new so it would look a bit 
unusual for a while.