Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 16:30 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: > > >>Potentially it could be added that the whole issue can often be avoided >>when an object's methods perform actions instead of returning attributes >>of the object. It's a long topic; maybe it could even just be a link, >>if someone knows of a good discussion along those lines. I'm sure >>there's some terminology here that I'm forgetting that describes the >>design pattern. There's also a point when the style guide becomes an >>API design guide, and I don't know how far it should go in that direction. > > > I'm not exactly sure if this is what you're getting at, but one thing > that bothers me is using data attributes to trigger actions. Maybe this > gets into the "no side-effects" rule for data attributes, but attributes > that cause an object to perform some action should always be explicit > methods.
Exactly. That's why I suggested the PEP start with the trivial case, which, BTW is extremely common. Let judgement guide when something is no-longer trivial. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
