A better self

brueckd at tbye.com brueckd at tbye.com
Sun Jul 21 23:24:26 EDT 2002


On Sun, 21 Jul 2002, Louis M. Pecora wrote:

> Yep, did that.  I use "_" in place of self.
> 
> >The benefit doesn't depend on your 
> > coding style that much. If readability is your gripe, change the syntax 
> > highlighting to make 'self.' be lighter (so it doesn't jump out as much). 
> 
> Can't do that on the current IDE.  No syntax highlighting.

Aha! The real problem comes to light! ;-) A good syntax highlighting
editor (IDE or not) will give a bigger boost to code readability than any
change the to Python language, but oh well...

-Dave






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