What is a good way to order methods in a Python class?

Question

I want to order methods in a Python class but I don\'t know what is the correct order.

When I extract methods in Eclipse with PyDev, Eclipse puts the extracted metho

Answer 1

I do something similar to @Ethan that I saw in Django's source, where the main difference is big "############" block comments to delimit the areas. For example,

class SomeClass(object):
    #################
    # Magic Methods #
    #################
    def __magic_methods__(self):
        "magic methods first"

    ##################
    # Public Methods #
    ##################
    def a_method(self):
        "then normal methods, in order of importance"

    ###################
    # Private Methods #
    ###################
    def _private_method(self):
        "then worker methods, grouped by importance or related function"

Obviously this is less useful for smaller classes.