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[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> >>> Isaac Hall <hall@nhn.ou.edu> 07/30/02 12:48PM >>>
> The things that I would have really appreciated 
> at that time which I found difficult to find were 
> general OOP 'good > behaviours'.  
> 
> I agree with Isaac on this one.  I am having a hard time 
> grasping the object oriented "mindset", or what have you.  

OOP seems to be one of those things that people 
either "get" straight away or struggle with for ages.

I was in the latter camp when I first encountered OOP 
back about 1985 or so. I read several articles, books 
and newsgroups covering OOP in C++, Lisp, Smalltalk 
and Objective C before it started to gel. I'd say it 
took me about 4-6 months of fairly intensive work. 
However it's not a Python issue, the same happens in 
any OO language.

The good news is that there is a huge array of 
learning tools nowadays both in dead tree form as 
well as online. Try

http://www.cetus-links.org

for links to every level and type of OO resource 
imaginable...

Alan G.