> Are you sure you don't want to use a child class for this? Composition/delegation introduce far less coupling than implementation inheritance. Inheritance abuse is in fact a well-known OO antipattern. Since Python makes delegation easy as pie, I don't see any reason to go for inheritence when it's not really needed (FWIW, you'll notice that Python class hierarchies tend to be really flat when compared to Java or like).
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