Fabiano Sidler wrote: > Hi folks! > > As stated in subject, how do I decide wether to inherit <type 'type'> or > <type 'object'>? Whenever I want to intantiate my derived type, I taked > <type 'type'> here, but inheriting from <type 'object'> consequently would > be reasonable in cases of pure static objects (i.e. objects/types using > staticmethods exclusively), for whose I would prefer toplevel code outside > a class definition in python, since python does not oblige programmers to > use classes (like JAVA et. al.). > > So, finally, my question is: Is there a design pattern, that makes > <type 'object'> a reasonable (direct) base type for new objects/types? > Right now, I can't see any. > > Thank you for answering! > Greetings, > F. Sidler
I don't think these are the recommended usages for type and object. Usually class factories (metaclasses) inheret from type and classes that instantiate objects inheret from object. I think this might clear up the issue: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.2/descrintro/ James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
