Re: Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

Paul Rubin wrote:
But, if something is done by convention, then departing from the
convention is by definition unconventional. If you do something
unconventional in a program, it could be on purpose for a reason, or
it could be by accident indicating a bug.

I for one would love to see at least compiler warning (optionally, error) for situation where attributes are added to self outside of __init__. I consider it generally evil and hate to see code like that.


Regards,
mk

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