On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:12:35 -0700, HCB wrote: > Hello: > > The book "Code Complete" recommends that you put only one class in a > source file, which seems a bit extreme for me. It seems that many > classes are small, so that putting several of them in a file seems > reasonable. I noticed that the decimal.py module in the standard library > has several classes, all of which of course revolve around the "decimal" > topic. Perhaps a better rule of thumb is "one idea per file." I checked > the Python style guide and there seems to be no mention of this topic. I > know this is an elementary question, but what is the Python way of doing > this? > > Thanks for your time. > HCB
That sounds terrible! Imagine having a million source files to edit, rename, create, delete each time you make a change. Sure, every Java fan can give you a million reasons why the universe will collapse otherwise, but this is totally impractical in python. Python's module organization and namespaces are more than enough if used reasonably. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
