On 5/3/2013 12:08 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
Exactly right, but let's stop calling it the "convenience API" and instead call it the "functional API". I probably started the perpetuation of this problem; let's update the PEP.
Please do. To me, a 'convenience function' is something like the timeit functions or subprocess.call that create a class instance, call a method (or two) on the instance, and then discard the instance while returning the result of calling methods. For the common case handled by the function, the implementation via a class with methods is a detail that the user hardly need know about.
Using a function interface to create and return a class is something else. -- Terry Jan Reedy _______________________________________________ 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
