[Python-Dev] Issue10403 - using 'attributes' instead of members in documentation (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jun 27 03:32:32 CEST 2011


On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

or the 'attribute' substitution everywhere makes sense? No. My strong history-based opinions ;-).

+1 to what Terry said.

"Members" is a historical relic that is best replaced by "attributes" or "data attributes" if we want to explicitly exclude methods for some reason. "Methods" is a subset of attributes that explicitly excludes data attributes.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia



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