> > 1) Mainly, all methods are special to someone. > > But some, such as those that have special meaning to the language > itself, are more special than others. > > __methods__ are not just plain old methods with funny names. You write > regular methods to express functionality you wish your class to have, > but you write __methods__ to provide low-level glue tying your class in > with the interpreter.
That's a somewhat different rationale than Guido provided, thanks. Or maybe I just understand it better. Still seems an odd way to differentiate a namespace. Bill _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
