OO patterns with Python

[Alex Martelli]

Michele Simionato wrote:
   ...
> matter of personal taste, I don't like books spending hundreds of
> pages
> discussing doubtful classifications. I haven't read the original one,
> though.
> Maybe it is better than the books I have seen.

The Gang of Four's "Design Patterns" is a great book, and a very
practical one.  It's _strongly_ oriented to C++ however (to write
a GREAT, practical book on design patterns I think you do have to 
strongly orient to one "target" programming language).


> Anyway, to the OP I wanted to suggest that somebody entering in the
> OOP field should not start with a theoretical book, but with a
> practical one. I think we agree on that.

Yes, we do.  Practice underlies theory, and getting some practice
before delving into the theory is an excellent idea.


Alex