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Partial 1.0 - Partial classes for Python

Michele Simionato michele.simionato at gmail.com
Thu Feb 8 10:38:10 EST 2007 
On Feb 8, 4:05 pm, s... at pobox.com wrote:>
> Composition is great when you know how largish classes are going to be
> composed ahead of time and/or already have the pieces available in the form
> of other classes you want to reuse.  I use this fragment-by-multiple-
> inheritance (I hesitate to call it a) pattern when I realize after a long
> period of organic growth that a single-inheritance class has gotten too big.
> It's often relatively easy to carve the class up into multiple related base
> classes.  The next step after that might be to morph those independent base
> classes back into delegated attributes.
>
> Skip

I know, I just try to avoid the multiple inheritance transitional
state and switch directly
to the last step ;)

  M. Simionato
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