On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:56:43 +0200 (CEST) "Jerry Rocteur" <mac...@rocteur.cc> wrote:
> As part of learning Python, I'm also learning OOP! That is why I want > to know if this is doable using classes. Everything[1] is doable using classes. The question is: Do you *need* to do it with classes? If your problem is best described as "mappings from keys to values", then you have already implemented a fine solution with dicts. Think of "objects" as "things with behavior". Basically, if you have many top-level data items (such as dicts, lists, whatever), and many functions operating on these, grouping these data items with the appropriate functions within classes might clean up your code conceptually (It might! I didn't say it will!). If you can categorize these data/function groups into a hierarchical structure of ever more specialized functionality, then classes and inheritance are pretty much your friends by default. So the takeaway is this: Will you (and possibly others) be able to understand my code better by organizing it in this-or-that structure? If so, use this-or-that structure, if not, then don't. And to even more evade answering your specific question: If you have the time, go and rewrite your code with classes. That'll teach you more than theorizing about *maybe doing* it here. /W [1] For sufficiently small values of "everything". -- INVALID? DE! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
