> I've just grabbed a random, heavily OO module from my own code library. > It has 60 instances of "self", or 240 characters, out of 18,839 > characters in total (including newlines). Removing self will decrease > the number of my keystrokes and the amount of pure typing time > (excluding thinking time, debugging time) by about 1.2%. I don't call > that "a lot" -- it's actually quite small. And it becomes vanishingly > trivial when you factor in that most of the time spent programming is > not typing but thinking, testing, debugging, etc.
Well, maybe I don't program in Python the "right way" ;-), because it's a bit more in my code. I repeated this test, and for a random module holding some GUI stuff (built using PyQt) and it's more than 5% (213 selfs out of 16204 characters). With a small app for creating dungeon tiles for role playing games I astonishingly got same very similar value (484 * 4 / 35000) ;-) Maybe it's a feature of programming with a lot of gui stuff, which I do. But 1 of the 20 chars used for a self is quite a lot for me. -- Filip Gruszczyński _______________________________________________ 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
