Rob Cliffe <rob.cli...@btinternet.com> writes: > On 27/06/2011 15:08, R. David Murray wrote:
> > I guess what I'm saying is that I am more comfortable calling them > > all attributes than calling them all members. The term 'members' > > isn't used anywhere in the language itself, as far as I can recall, > > whereas getattr and setattr are evidence that the language considers > > them all attributes. I think we do the documentation readers a > > disservice by obscuring that fact by using other terminology. +1 > 'function attributes' ? 'def attributes' ? −1. They don't have to be functions, and hence don't have to be created by ‘def’. > Or just stick with method attributes' ? “callable attributes” describes exactly what they are, in terms that will remain useful to the person learning Python. -- \ “‘Did you sleep well?’ ‘No, I made a couple of mistakes.’” | `\ —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ 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
