In article <518df898$0$29997$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> I never intended to give the impression that *any* use of a separate > "enable" method call was bad. I certainly didn't intend to be bogged > down into a long discussion about the minutia of file descriptors in > C, but it was educational :-) Well, you did say you were here for abuse. I think you got your money's worth. Can I interest you in a course of getting hit on the head lessons? And just to be clear to the studio audience and all of you who are watching at home... For all the effort I put into nit-picking, I do agree with Steven's basic premise. Two-phase construction is usually not the right way to be designing classes. Especially in languages like Python where constructors raising exceptions is both inexpensive and universally accepted as normal behavior. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
