[Tutor] python varying mulitple inheritance

[kendy at kendy.org]

Thank you Steve and Alan!

I'll keep studying and practicing.

Ken


>Back to basics. a class is a definition of a *type* of thing, not a 
>particular case. A Pocket is a general purpose container. Each instance 
>can hold many things. So you would normally expect one pocket class and 
>6 instances. Each instance holding a different list of items.
>
>The only time you need a different Pocket class is where the pocket has 
>different *behaviour*. It is normally the behaviours that differentiate 
>classes not the data. The class data is there to support the class 
>behaviour. The behaviour of a Pocket is probably some thing like:
>addItem
>removeItem
>findItem
>countItems
>open
>close
>empty
>
>In most implementations a Pocket will look a lot like a list...