On 24/11/15 15:36, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > I have two classes with a number of methods that are the same, > so I want to define a super class that holds these methods.
So far so good. > But the super class (below called _Generic) should not be instantiated, But here it starts to feel a tad non Pythonic to me. It's not C++. You can certainly do it (as you show below). But should you? Is a docstring comment not sufficient? Why would anyone want to instantiate Generic? And if they do think of a valid reason, why stop them? -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor