[Python-Dev] Confirming status of new modules in 3.4 (original) (raw)
Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 16 00:00:30 CET 2014
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Nick Coghlan wrote:
On 16 March 2014 01:40, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
This downside of using subclassing as an API should be well known by now and widely warned against. I've actually pondered the idea of suggesting we explicitly recommend the "procedural facade around an object oriented implementation" API design model in PEP 8,
I don't think I would call this a "procedural" API. To my mind, any API that exposes objects with methods is an object-oriented API, whether it encourages subclassing those objects or not.
-- Greg
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