Terry Hancock wrote: > What Lundh is modeling this on is not standard OOP thinking, > but rather the standard way of opening files in Python. > > Or you could say he's using a "factory function".
"open" is a factory function, and it picks the right class based on the file you're opening. anyone arguing that this is bad OOP is deluded. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list