What are modules really for?

[bruno modulix]

Neil Benn wrote:
(snip)
> If you don't have a class how can you combine functionality with data
> and hold state 

In Python, functions can hold state in various ways: closures,
generators, and - Python functions being instances of the function class
- attributes.

> - that is one of the points of a class.  

Yeps, but not the only way to solve the problem (even if it's actually
my favorite one !-)

(snip)

> Enterprise systems have different objectives than a cgi script or single
> client install stuff.  

Would you call Zope a cgi script or a single client install stuff ?

-- 
bruno desthuilliers
ruby -e "print 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@').collect{|p|
p.split('.').collect{|w| w.reverse}.join('.')}.join('@')"