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Are Python mixins an anti-pattern?
I'm fully aware that pylint and other static analysis tools are not all-knowing, and sometimes their advice must be disobeyed. (This applies for various classes of messages, not just conventions.) If ...
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Should I create a class if my function is complex and has a lot of variables?
This question is somewhat language-agnostic, but not completely, since Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is different in, for example, Java, which doesn't have first-class functions, than it is in ...
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Functional programming compared to OOP with classes
I have been interested in some of the concepts of functional programming lately. I have used OOP for some time now. I can see how I would build a fairly complex app in OOP. Each object would know how ...
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Can you implement "object-oriented" programming without the class keyword?
Say we want to provide an abstraction of an "account" in a bank. Here's one approach, using a function object in Python: def account(): """Return a dispatch dictionary representing a bank account. ...
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Why do you need "self." in Python to refer to instance variables?
I have been programming into a number of languages like Java, Ruby, Haskell and Python. I have to switch between many languages per day due to different projects I work on. Now, the issue is I often ...
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Should serialization and deserialization be the responsibility of the class being serialized?
I'm currently in the (re)design phase of several model classes of a C# .NET application. (Model as in M of MVC). The model classes already have plenty of well-designed data, behaviors, and ...
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Differences between "Java OOP" and "Pythonic OOP"? [closed]
I started with ActionScript 2.0 and then went on with Java. I have learned, or at least used, a bunch of languages since then, including Python (probably my favorite). I'm afraid that my style of ...
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Why are inheritance and polymorphism so widely used?
The more I learn about different programming paradigms, such as functional programming, the more I begin to question the wisdom of OOP concepts like inheritance and polymorphism. I first learned ...
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The Liskov Substitution Principle, and Python
Background I've taught myself Python over the past year-and-a-bit, and would consider myself an intermediate Python user at this point, but never studied computing at school/university. As such, my ...
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Python classes with only one instance: When to create a (single) class instance and when to work with the class instead?
Given a Python class which will be instantiated only once, i.e. there will be only one object of the class. I was wondering in which cases it makes sense to create a single class instance instead of ...
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Object oriented vs vector based programming
I am torn between object oriented and vector based design. I love the abilities, structure and safety that objects give to the whole architecture. But at the same time, speed is very important to me, ...
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Using Python's Method Resolution Order for Dependency Injection - is this bad?
I watched Raymond Hettinger's Pycon talk "Super Considered Super" and learned a little bit about Python's MRO (Method Resolution Order) which linearises a classes "parent" classes in a deterministic ...
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Is there any difference learning OOP on different programming languages? [closed]
I want to learn OOP. I know Python and I know very little things about OOP. But when I search for "learn OOP" in forums I saw a guy saying that "Python is so new that's why you can't learn OOP on ...
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How to use multiple programming languages together in the same program? [closed]
Such a simple question, but I have not found a reasonable answer to this. I currently program in Python, an interpreted language. I always hear of people using multiple languages in the same program? ...
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Python's join seems to focus not on the items to join, but on the symbol, as compared to Ruby or Smalltalk, for a design reason?
I thought one of the cornerstone of OOP is that, we have objects, which are the items we are interested in dealing with, and then we send messages to them. So it may seem natural that, I have a ...
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