[Tutor] a class that may not be instantiated

[Alan Gauld]

On 24/11/15 15:36, Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:
> I have two classes with a number of methods that are the same, 
> so I want to define a super class that holds these methods.

So far so good.

> But the super class (below called _Generic) should not be instantiated, 

But here it starts to feel a tad non Pythonic to me. It's not C++.
You can certainly do it (as you show below). But should you?
Is a docstring comment not sufficient? Why would anyone want to
instantiate Generic? And if they do think of a valid reason,
why stop them?


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