Why I am not really fond of docstrings in Python
I wrote some nice things before about how Idon't really use docstrings, but in thinking about it more I've realizedthat I was shading the truth. The real truth is that I don't really likeusing docstrings, and I've recently figured out why: docstrings don'tstand out enough.
(I have to say here that I have nothing against documenting my code;I just want it to look right.)
Unless you use an editor and display environment that set docstringsoff
More thinking about Python's inheritance model
Here's something I've been pondering lately: why doesn't Python havean inheritance model more like C++, where (forexample) your superclass's __init__ is automatically called?
There's a number of reasons, but I think that one of them is that Pythonlacks any concept of private class attributes and methods. When youlimit what a subclass can do to a superclass, when you have privateinternal state that has to be maintained correctly, it's
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The implicit versus the explicit
In a lot of computer things (such as programming languages, or systemenvironments) we have the choice between being concise and leavingthings implicit, and being verbose but making things explicit. Hereis the thing about this choice:
Computers are fine with implicit things because they never forget ;they effectively have perfect memories for this sort of thing. Buthumans have limited memories (especially short term memories) that haveto be periodically reinforced, so we necessarily forget some of theimplicit stuff every so often. Which periodically causes
