On 3/23/06, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One idea I had after reading a post of Brett's was a dual-use attribute; > if you do d.keys you get an iterable (not an iterator, of course), and > if you call that iterable you get a list. This is backward compatible, > arguably prettier anyway to make it a property (since there's no side > effects and getting an iterable isn't expensive, the method call seems > somewhat superfluous).
I don't think we should overload attributes name such that they are sometimes attributes and sometimes methods, particularly when they return things that behave almost-but-not-quite the same. It will create confusion and subtle bugs. Jeremy _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
