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Python’s Magic Methods

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Mar. 09, 12 · Web Dev Zone · Interview
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Here are some links to documentation of Python’s magic methods, aka special methods, aka “dunder” (double underscore) methods.

  • Rafe Kettler’s A Guide to Python’s Magic Methods

    ::—> http://www.rafekettler.com/magicmethods.html

  • Michael Foord’s chapter on Python Magic Methods from this book IronPython in Action: Unleashing .NET with Python

    ::—> http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/magic-methods.html

  • David’s article on Siafoo on Python __Underscore__ Methods

    ::—> http://www.siafoo.net/article/57

  • The Python Quick Reference on John Shipman’s wonderful New Mexico Tech web site

    ::—> http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/python/web/special-methods.html

  • The official Python Language Reference
    ::—> http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#special-method-names

  • Kumar McMillan’s post on Magic Methods on his FarmDev blog has a few interesting observations

    ::—> http://farmdev.com/src/secrets/magicmethod/index.html

There are also a few other Python features that are sometimes characterized as “magic”.

  • some of the built-in functions, especially that newcomer: super()

  • decorators that use some of the new built-in functions — @staticmethod, @classmethod, and @property

I’m sure there are other useful Web pages about magic methods that I haven’t found. If you know of one (and feel like sharing it) please add it in the comments section below.

 

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