Thanks Kent!
-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 9:52 AM
To: Gooch, John
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Are Empty "Placeholder" Functions possible?
Gooch, John wrote:
> Is there a way to create an empty function definition with no lines of
> code in it? In my coding style I will often do this ( in other
> languages ) for RAD just to remind myself that I will need to
> implement the function later.
A block cannot be empty but there is a placeholder statement 'pass' that
does nothing.
>
> Example: For a file handling class, I may need functions such as
> copy,delete,move,etc so I want to start off with:
>
> class FileHandler:
> def __init__(self):
>
> def copy(self):
>
> def delete(self):
class FileHandler:
def __init__(self):
pass
def copy(self):
pass
def delete(self):
pass
Kent
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