OO patterns with Python

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In article <3e4975db_2 at news.vo.lu>, "Patrick Useldinger" <no at way.lu> 
wrote:

> Maybe... but being a procedural programmer, OO is non-trivial for me,
> whereas most procedural programs *are* easy to read for me if I know the
> programming language.

Python should be perfect for you. I came to Python from Basic, 
assembler, Pascal, PostScript and a bit of C; objects were mostly new to 
me when I started with Python. Friends had shown C++ and SmallTalk but 
that had totally the wrong learning curve for me (being a lazy amateur 
programmer). Python makes it real easy as it isn't _purely_ OO, in the 
sense that you don't have to write a class to get "hello world" going. 
First you start to _use_ objects (eg. files, lists), learn what methods 
are. Then you learn what the mechanics of classes are, and you will 
slowly learn how to factor things into objects, and at that point 
patterns become interesting. Python is great for learning OO gradually.

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