OO in Python (was Re: Migrating to perl?)

[Cameron Laird]

In article <934ghv02hg0 at news2.newsguy.com>,
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> the question of how do I do OO but I really know very little about it...
>> enough to know that I can benefit from it and basic ideas.  I understand
>the
>> idea of a class and building objects from it but anything beyond that is
>> still really new to me.  Any suggestions?
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>I don't think there is a really good "OO theory" text that does
>not make some reasonably strong assumptions on the object model
>that will be in use -- which, in turn, means the language that
>will be in use.  If you learn OO based on an object model that
Does *Object-Oriented Software Construction*
not make your "cut-off", Alex?
>(e.g.) assumes compile-time static typing, or single inheritance,
>etc, that will not make your transition to Python OO all that
>smooth or easy (quite feasible, of course -- the more languages
>you know and understand, the easier it is to learn any N+1-th
>language, and Python IS quite easy in any event).
Hmm; perhaps your examples answer my question.
I'll counter, though, that even single-inheri-
ted Python is quite a wonderful thing.
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