2012/6/7 Andreas Mueller <[email protected]>:
> - Some classes are "base classes" that should not be instantiated (like 
> BaseLibSVM).
>     But these classes are not really marked as such. Some classes are 
> abstract base
>     classes, but not all of them. For example BaseLibSVM has no abstract 
> method.
>     For these, I made "__init__" an abstract method. This also prevents users 
> from
>     instantiating them by accident. Do you think this is a good idea?

Good idea! I never did that since I thought it would make it
impossible to call the ABC's __init__ from a subclass constructor, but
that turns out to be untrue.

-- 
Lars Buitinck
Scientific programmer, ILPS
University of Amsterdam

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