On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:59:15 +0000, Bengt Richter wrote: > On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:51:18 +0100, "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I would like to see _marker put inside the class' scope. That prevents >>> somebody from the outside scope easily passing _marker as an argument >>> to instance.f. >> >>if you don't want people to be able to easily pass _marker as an >>argument to the f method, you probably shouldn't use it as the default >>value. >> > LOL ;-) Ha ha *wink* What I meant was to discourage people from treating _marker as just another ordinary sort of object, then making pointless bugs reports "when you pass _marker as the argument to the f method, it doesn't print _marker but instead prints something else." My philosophy is, any time you have an object that has a magic meaning (e.g. as a sentinel), don't tempt your users to try to use it as if it were an ordinary object. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
