[Tutor] adding methods to native types

[Erik Price]

On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 12:20  AM, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

> easy answer: it has been that way since Python began.
>
> much of python lets you interact with objects without actually using 
> methods.
> I think len() is one of those vestiges.
>
> I wonder if it had something to do with trying to ease people into OO 
> (Python
> was meant to help those learning programming).

Okay.  So there's nothing wrong with doing:

class MyList():
   def __init__(self):
     self._mylist = []

   def len(self):
     return len(self)

?

It feels "dirty" to use the __init__ method since it has those magic 
underscores (I feel the same way about using if __name__ == 
"__main__").  But there is no other name for the constructor, right?



Erik





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