> A good thing to do but in some cases you have
> to settle for "that's just the way Guido made it" :-)
Thanks for the elaborate answer.
That helps me a lot, as I see some similarities to natural languages:
There is a clearly defined structure, but in some cases purely
arbitrary decisions have be
On 15/08/18 08:32, Rafael Knuth wrote:
> I am trying to wrap my head around naming conventions & semantics in Python.
A good question with a none to simple answer.
In truth some of it goes back to essentially
arbitrary decisions made by Guido vanRossum
when he originally designed Python!
The othe
Rafael Knuth writes:
> - List is a function, and read is a method, is that correct?
* No, ‘list’ is a type. Types are callable; they return an instance of
the type.
* Yes, a file object has a ‘read’ method.
* Every method is a function. Not every function is a method.
> - Semantic wise it w
