[Tutor] Placing entire Application inside a class

[Tiger12506]

It is helpful for GUI applications because of what it says about halfway 
down the page, within __init__ you can bind certain messages to methods of 
the class.

I would not say that it is recommended persé but I'm sure that there are 
those out there that cannot write a program without putting it into a class. 
And yet there are those out there who cannot write a program without making 
it all functional in nature. Do what feels right to you.

This sort of thing is very popular in C++ because of the way MFC is 
structured, but no one here likes MFC right? ;-)

As I said, do what you like, just as long as it doesn't get messy.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Morcombe" <jmorcombe at westnet.com.au>
To: "python tutor mailing list" <tutor at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:54 PM
Subject: [Tutor] Placing entire Application inside a class


I have just read through "Creating a GUI in Python - by Dakota Lemaster"

In it, Dakota recomends placing the entire application within a class.

Why is this so?  Surely in many cases you end up with a constructor for the 
class that is cumbersome and complex?

Is this a recomended Python programming technique?

http://student-iat.ubalt.edu/sde/students/lemaster/COSC330/Final/sec4_AppClass.html


Why is this so?  Surely in many cases you end up with a constructor for the 
class that is cumbersome and complex?

Is this a recomended Python programming technique?

Jim



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