When I need classes?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 11:18 am, Ian Kelly wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Bernardo Sulzbach
> <mafagafogigante at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have never gone "seriously OO" with Python though. I never wrote
>> from scratch an application with more than 10 classes as far as I can
>> remember. However, I would suppose that the interpreter can handle
>> thousands of user-defined classes simultaneously.
> 
> In Python, a class is just an object, so the only limit on how many
> classes the interpreter can handle simultaneously is available memory.
> 
> However, if you have deeply nested inheritance graphs then you could
> start to see performance issues on method calls, since the entire
> inheritance graph potentially has to be traversed in order to find the
> method.


I'm sure Ian knows this already, but for the benefit of others...

Python is not Java:

http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html


And Java is not Python either:

http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/java-is-not-python-either.html



-- 
Steven