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authorCornel Punga <cornel.punga@gmail.com>2015-03-24 19:26:19 +0200
committerCornel Punga <cornel.punga@gmail.com>2015-03-24 19:26:19 +0200
commit44c37d5531d42a73b0bde49525e586b413489caf (patch)
treea1d76c0b7a2bac64b0b890dbc3138ae6f307cc27
parent928afcc4c735c64682b07a52d20baf437cef1316 (diff)
[python3.html.mardown] Added a short statement about magic methods
Terminology related to Python special functions
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/python3.html.markdown b/python3.html.markdown
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@@ -498,7 +498,9 @@ class Human(object):
# Basic initializer, this is called when this class is instantiated.
# Note that the double leading and trailing underscores denote objects
# or attributes that are used by python but that live in user-controlled
- # namespaces. You should not invent such names on your own.
+ # namespaces. Methods(or objects or attributes) like: __init__, __str__,
+ # __repr__ etc. are called magic methods (or sometimes called dunder methods)
+ # You should not invent such names on your own.
def __init__(self, name):
# Assign the argument to the instance's name attribute
self.name = name