[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Frank Millman, just a short note, more expert people can give you > better answers. There aren't abstract classes in Python. They are all > concrete. You may have classes with undefined methods (they may raise > NotImplementedError). > Multiple inheritance isn't supported by Java and Ruby, but it is > supported by C++ and Python, so you can use it in Python. > There are also ways of mixing methods. You may define methods, and then > lists of methods to add to your classes. > > Bye, > bearophile
I use the term 'abstract class' in the abstract sense :-) Say I have three classes where 90% of the attributes and methods are common. It makes sense to create a base class with these attributes and methods, and turn each of the three classes into a subclass which inherits from the base class and overrides the bits that are unique to each one. This is what I call an abstract class. Maybe there is a more correct term. Frank -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
