anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> added the comment: Much better definition. I stripped it down a little to avoid "mechanism" repetition.
Compared with other programming languages, Python provides object oriented approach with a minimum of new syntax and semantics. Its class mechanism is a mixture of concepts found in C++ and Modula-3. Python classes can be inherited from multiple base classes, a derived class can override any methods of its base class or classes, and a method can call the method of a base class with the same name. Objects can contain arbitrary amounts and kinds of data. As is true for modules, classes partake of the dynamic nature of Python; users of a class can modify or break the class definition even without changing the source code. However, the sentence about arbitrary amounts and kinds of data seems strange to me. I would like to see it like "In comparison to XXX where there is limitation that YYY Python objects can contain arbitrary amounts and kinds of data." "users of a class can modify or break the class definition even without changing the source code." doesn't sound right to me. How can I *break* the class definition? Maybe it was meant to The dynamic nature of Python allows new classes to be defined and existing classes modified at run-time. ---------- nosy: +techtonik _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9138> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
