Why NOT only one class per file?
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Apr 5 07:00:35 EDT 2007
Christophe wrote:
> Chris Lasher a écrit :
>> A friend of mine with a programming background in Java and Perl places
>> each class in its own separate file in . I informed him that keeping
>> all related classes together in a single file is more in the Python
>> idiom than one file per class. He asked why, and frankly, his valid
>> question has me flummoxed.
>
> In Java, you HAVE to place a class in it's own file. That's how the
> language works. But in Java, you do not have to place each class in it's
> own module/package, in fact, it would be bad.
>
> It's the same in Python: you do not want to have one class per
> module/package.
>
> Unfortunately, in Python, a module/package is a file, and in Java, it's
> a directory. Also, Python doesn't really have the notion of a "root
> package/module".
>
> Translation: "import foo; foo.foo()" sucks so avoid having only one
> class per module :)
One further thought:
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=42242
regards
Steve
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