Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
I have a class which is not intended to be instantiated. Instead of using
the class to creating an instance and then operate on it, I use the class
directly, with classmethods. Essentially, the class is used as a function
that keeps state from one call to the next.
The problem is that I don't know what to call such a thing! "Abstract
class" isn't right, because that implies that you should subclass the
class and then instantiate the subclasses.
What do you call such a class?
<nitpick>
Err... A possible design smell ?-)
</nitpick>
More seriously: this looks quite like a singleton, which in Python is
usually implemented way more simply using a module and plain functions.
Do you have a use case for specializing this class ?
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