Pre-PEP ideas
Alex Martelli
aleaxit at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 18 07:07:07 EST 2003
Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de) wrote:
> Richard Jones wrote:
> >
>
>> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 1:06 pm, Steven Cummings wrote:
>
>>
>> > def A.print(self):
>> > "print a string representation to sys.stdout"
>> > print self._value
>
> >
>
>> I'd vote -1 for this simply because there's already a way to do this.
>
>
> The existing way is fine assuming assuming you only want
> to do this rarely. But I can think of a reason for wanting
> to do this a lot.
And why, even then, would the reasonably simple style:
def _A__pprint(self):
print self._value
A.pprint = _A_pprint
be so bad as to warrant a syntax addition to Python?
Alex
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