"Michael Langford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Good stuff on inheritance and polymorphism snipped...
> Encapsulation: The process of taking what shouldn't matter to > the external world, and locking it behind an interface. Actually I'd call that Abstraction. Encapsulation literally means taking things and putting them in a container - a capsule. Or in the case of OOP a class/object. > This principle works best when put into small, specialized libraries > and designed for general use, ..... But the rest I agree with :-) -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor