On 06/07/2012 11:23 PM, Lars Buitinck wrote:
> 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.
>
Yeah. I recently read about that. Coming from C++ that feels weird,
though in this situation it helps us :)

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