On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 13:06 -0800, Michael Chermside wrote: > I think it's clear that if a method is invoked magically, it ought to have > underscores; if it is invoked directly then it ought not to. next() is > invoked both ways, so the question is which of the following invariants > we would rather maintain: > > * Any method that gets invoked 'magically' (by syntax) will have > underscores. > > * Any method with underscores should be invoked directly only if > you are practicing deep magic.
Practicality beats purity, so IMHO if the user should type it, it should not have underscores. If we grow a built-in next() -- which I'm -0 on, then clearly it should get renamed to __next__() because then the user would /not/ be expected to write it. -Barry
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