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Re:Python: Uncovering the Overlooked Core Functionalities by claytonjy on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:21PM (#36857078)
I see it a lot in HuggingFace, and use it myself for classes that are used like a function, especially when the obvious method name is the verb form of the class name

    processor = SomeProcessor.load("path/to/config")

    # with __call__
    processed_inputs = processor(inputs)

    # less awkward than
    processes_inputs = processor.process(inputs)
The only benefit is to the human, same as @property or even @dataclass.
Re:Python: Uncovering the Overlooked Core Functionalities by learplant on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @05:51PM (#36870089)
Thanks for writing that up! I disagree though, I prefer the processor.process for clarity, and for not adding another way of doing things that regular methods already do.