Python Scalability

[dacut at kanga.org]

In article <Puj23.7$KR2.12684 at news.corridex.com>,
"Evan Simpson" <evan at tokenexchange.com> wrote:
> Is the original author aware of the nifty-keen Python feature of mixin
> classes?

Yep, yep... use them all the time in both Python and C++.

>  Can't tell for sure from the information given, but they might be
> perfect, if you just need to side-car an interface onto a bunch of
> unrelated classes.  Makes it quite easy to test for
> interface-compliance, too.

Unfortunately, there's no easy way to tell (at bytecompile time) whether
a child has actually implemented an abstract method.  You still have to
wait for the exception to trickle down at run-time.  The only difference
is that it's something other than an AttributeError exception.


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