I come to praise .join, not to bury it...

[Rainer Deyke]

"D-Man" <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote in message
news:mailman.983997159.4842.python-list at python.org...
> Even with my newfound understanding, provided by the Martellibot, I
> agree with this.  Calling a method on an object is fine.  Calling it
> on a literal looks weird.  Take for example something like this
>
> three = 1.__add__( 2 )

How about 'three = (1).__add__(2)'?  Adding parentheses around the literal
should make this look right; otherwise you are not calling methods on the
results of complex expressions often enough.


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