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Re: Composition instead of inheritance

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From Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
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Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> writes:

> For anybody interested in composition instead of multiple inheritance,
> I have posted this recipe on ActiveState (for python 2.6/7, not 3.x):
>
> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577658-composition-of-classes-instead-of-multiple-inherit/
>
> Comments welcome!

It doesn't look like composition at all, though. I understand
composition to be the setting of attributes on a class or instance; that
recipe doesn't show it very well IMO.

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Composition instead of inheritance Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-04-28 10:15 -0700
  Re: Composition instead of inheritance Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-04-29 07:38 +1000
  Re: Composition instead of inheritance Alan Meyer <ameyer2@yahoo.com> - 2011-05-02 13:30 -0400

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