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

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue Jun 28 04:11:18 CEST 2011

Rob Cliffe <rob.cliffe at btinternet.com> writes:

On 27/06/2011 15:08, R. David Murray wrote:

> I guess what I'm saying is that I am more comfortable calling them > all attributes than calling them all members. The term 'members' > isn't used anywhere in the language itself, as far as I can recall, > whereas getattr and setattr are evidence that the language considers > them all attributes. I think we do the documentation readers a > disservice by obscuring that fact by using other terminology.

+1

'function attributes' ? 'def attributes' ?

−1. They don't have to be functions, and hence don't have to be created by ‘def’.

Or just stick with method attributes' ?

“callable attributes” describes exactly what they are, in terms that will remain useful to the person learning Python.

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