[Tutor] complete list of "special" methods

[Michael P. Reilly]

>   I was wondering if anyone knows where i might find a full and
> complete list of any special methods that a python class (module?)
> is capable of having?
> 
>   Some of the more obvious are __init__, __or__, __repr__ but i'm wondering
> how many of these there are in total.  A short description of what each one
> is
> would also be helpful (but not necessary).

These are fully documented in section "3.3 Special method names" in the
Python Reference Manual
(<URL: http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/specialnames.html>).

There are approximately 53 of these 'special methods'.

You can also find descriptions of these in most of the books ("Python
Pocket Reference", "Python Essential Reference", "Programming Python",
etc.)

  -Arcege

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