utility functions within a class?

[John Salerno]

bruno at modulix wrote:

>> but these
>> functions will be called from another method in the class, not from the
>> instance itself.
> 
> yes, they will:
> 
> class Parrot(object):
>    def _func1(self, whatever):
>      print whatever
> 
>   def talk(self):
>      self._func1('vroom')
> HTH.

yes, all your posts did help...this is exactly what i ended up doing, 
and i see now why i needed to make them regular methods, despite the 
fact that they weren't used outside the class (because the instance was 
still used *inside* the class to call them)