Re: [Python-ideas] Factory functions (was: RE: time.wallclock() or other similar stuff)

On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 13:26:27 +0800 Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote:

And why are there factory functions in threading.py and not classes?

I'm not sure, but it looks like a poor man's way of discouraging subclassing. Regards Antoine.