[Tutor] Subclassing vs. stand alone functions

Hi there, I am new to Python and trying to get my head around the OO stuff. I guess my question is - when do you go with subclassing vs. making a standalone function? Let's say you want to load a dictionary. Do I create a function that accepts some argument (say a file name) and returns a dict

Re: [Tutor] Subclassing vs. stand alone functions

I am new to Python and trying to get my head around the OO stuff. I guess my question is - when do you go with subclassing vs. making a standalone function? OK, I'll take a slightly different approach than the other answers so far. First: procedural and OO styles of programming are diffrent

Re: [Tutor] Subclassing vs. stand alone functions

Thanks again, this is exactly the kind of info I need to make the jump from procedural to OO design. I bookmarked your site for reference. On Saturday, June 16, 2007, at 09:30AM, "Kent Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I am new to Python and tryin

[Tutor] using shelve

I created a shelf called 'myshelf' and put two objects in it, a string and a list. When I open the shelf I get: >>> d=shelve.open('/Users/development/Desktop/myshelf') >>> d.keys() ['dir1', 'dir2'] >>> d {'dir2': '/Users/development/Desktop/RSSReaderApp/RSS.db', 'dir1': ['.DS_Store', '.localized

Re: [Tutor] using shelve

Sorry it took me so long to get back - from your posts and my experimentation I can see that when you access one item in the shelve dictionary, it only gets the one item, not all of them. I am going to use shelve, and only refactor or change if performance becomes an issue - which I don't see