Can you think of ANY context in Python in which the order of items in parentheses isn't important?!
(a, b, c) != (c, b, a) func(a, b, c) != func(c, b, a) etc. You are arguing that defining inheritance order is "intuitively" the one and only context in which the order of items in parentheses makes no difference. On Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 1:23 PM malmiteria <martin.mi...@ensc.fr> wrote: > David Mertz, Ph.D. writes: > > Are you likewise "confused" by the fact that `a = b - c` is generally > > different from `a = c - b`?! > > Why do you always quote confused? > > I'm not, but that's because i've been taught / i've experienced that since > primary school. I have been taught math, but not python, nor any programing > language. > > Most people experience with python will lead them to understand easily > that parenthesis are definitely not symetrical, since calling a function is > a common thing to do in python, and most programming language. > As much as they would be able to understand that there is many different > context in which what's define inside the parenthesis doesn't always mean > the same thing. And overall, the "parenthesis operation" doesn't exists as > one simple thing. > Sure there's __call__, but parenthesis are also used in method definition, > method call and class definition, on top of class calls. > As much as there is some importance of the order of the arguments in > method definition, it's definitely a fair assumption, based on generic > experiences with the language, that parenthesis in the syntax "class A(B)" > simply means something different, and is a different operation. > > However, the class definition allows you to refer the class by the name > placed before the parenthesis, so it's obvious even only with a generic > python experience that the "inside/outside" parenthesis order matter. > Much more than the order within the parenthesis. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/43AEEIGIBPFEPKAIZWPN34PCVGR4QWBD/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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