On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 11:18 am, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Bernardo Sulzbach > <mafagafogiga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have never gone "seriously OO" with Python though. I never wrote >> from scratch an application with more than 10 classes as far as I can >> remember. However, I would suppose that the interpreter can handle >> thousands of user-defined classes simultaneously. > > In Python, a class is just an object, so the only limit on how many > classes the interpreter can handle simultaneously is available memory. > > However, if you have deeply nested inheritance graphs then you could > start to see performance issues on method calls, since the entire > inheritance graph potentially has to be traversed in order to find the > method.
I'm sure Ian knows this already, but for the benefit of others... Python is not Java: http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html And Java is not Python either: http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/java-is-not-python-either.html -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
