Arthur Pemberton enlightened us with: > What is the best way to do data source abtraction?
That depends on your data source. For files, file-like objects are an abstraction. For databases there is PEP 249. > I was thinking of almost having classA as my main class, and have > classA dynamically "absorb" classFood into to based on the extension > of the input file received by classA. But this doesn't seem > possible. You don't explain the most important part - "absorb". What does that mean? And what does it mean to have classA "almost" as your main class? Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list