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 Every once in awhile, while whisking away at a new batch of code, the best of your wit fails you and you plant the seed for what would be an epic, head-ache inducing bug by not following a good common practice you really ought to know better about.

As much as python treats functions as first order objects analogous in most ways to any other new-style object, it is important to observe the fine differences between methods and functions, and in the process hopefully avoid a few edge case pitfalls.

Some fun facts to keep in mind:

In my previous entry, I showed how a virtual wx.ListCtrl can be used to avoid some of the more annoying aspects of wx.ListCtrl's behavior. Furthermore, I gave an example of one such simple implementation: NiftyVirtualCtrl. Previously, I had thought this was the end of the discussion.

UPDATE 10/11/2007: Check out my sequel post http://www.nttmcl.com/blog/?q=node/12 which discusses an issue with how NiftifyList in my example code won't work with XRC ListCtrl's as I had hoped, and how to get around the problem.