[SAGA-RG] Python bindings naming issues

[Andre Merzky]

Quoting [Manuel Franceschini] (Jan 12 2010):
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> 'NotImplemented' [0] and 'NotImplementedError' [1] are reserved
> keywords in Python. 

The first link seems to indicate that Python's NotImplemented is
only thrown on __eq__(), __lt__() etc - which (a) don't look like
heavily used functions (in userspace), and (b) seem to be cleanly
distinguishable from SAGA calls.  So, is this really a collision?

If so, then one could use something liks IsNotImplemented?


> Thus, the SAGA 'NotImplemented' Exception has the
> potential to hide some of these keywords in the Python bindings. So we
> could either rename the exception or live with the fact that there
> might be some (small?) problems. What do you think?
> 
> Similarly, 'id', which is used as parameter in many methods in the
> SAGA spec, is a built-in function in Python. This, however, shouldn't
> be to much of an issue to rename.

Right.

Well, naming is always painful, isn't it?

Best, Andre.


> Cheers,
> /Manuel
> 
> 
> [0] http://docs.python.org/library/constants.html#NotImplemented
> [1] http://docs.python.org/library/exceptions.html#exceptions.NotImplementedError
> [2] http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#id
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