On Wednesday 03 June 2015 03:19, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>: > >> On Fri, 29 May 2015 12:00 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> [...] >>> in a language where classes are >>> themselves values, there is no reason why a class must be instantiated, >>> particularly if you're only using a single instance of the class. Anyone >>> ever come across a named design pattern that involves using classes >>> directly without instantiating them? >>> >>> I'm basically looking for a less inelegant term for "instanceless class" >>> -- not so much a singleton as a zeroton. >> >> C# has these, and calls them static classes. > > I guess Python has them, too, and calls them modules.
Modules play a similar role -- after all, modules and classes are both namespaces. But: - you can't (easily) use inheritance on a module to make a new module, but you can use inheritance on a class; although I think C# prohibits that. - you can't (easily) include more than one module in a single file. -- Steve -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
