Moving to Python from Ruby, one very early scarring experience was battling trying to get the length of a string, before eventually discovering len() - a free function, whereas in Ruby (OO purist that it is), everything is a method.
Well I thought this was rather silly and counterintuitive of Python, and said so in some forum or other, whereupon i discovered the very passionate views of folks who have come down hard on one side or other of this debate.
So, lesson learned: keep one's opinions on such matters to oneself, as one man's banquet is another's poison. In which vein, it would be splendid if this comment did not occasion another screed about the manifest glories of __len__ to enlighten us heathens.
Well I thought this was rather silly and counterintuitive of Python, and said so in some forum or other, whereupon i discovered the very passionate views of folks who have come down hard on one side or other of this debate.
So, lesson learned: keep one's opinions on such matters to oneself, as one man's banquet is another's poison. In which vein, it would be splendid if this comment did not occasion another screed about the manifest glories of __len__ to enlighten us heathens.