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Re: What is the reason for defining classes within classes in Python?

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From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2013-04-23 16:22 -0600
Subject Re: What is the reason for defining classes within classes in Python?
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 3:50 PM, vasudevram <vasudevram@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi list,
>
> I saw an example of defining a class within another class, here, in the docs for peewee, a simple ORM for Python:
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> http://peewee.readthedocs.org/en/latest/peewee/quickstart.html
>
> In what way is this useful?

In that particular case they're just using it as a namespace.  Django
does the same thing.

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What is the reason for defining classes within classes in Python? vasudevram <vasudevram@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 14:50 -0700
  Re: What is the reason for defining classes within classes in Python? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 16:22 -0600
    Re: What is the reason for defining classes within classes in Python? vasudevram <vasudevram@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 16:13 -0700
      Re: What is the reason for defining classes within classes in Python? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 17:50 -0700
        Re: What is the reason for defining classes within classes in Python? vasudevram <vasudevram@gmail.com> - 2013-04-24 04:01 -0700
          Re: What is the reason for defining classes within classes in Python? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-04-24 14:00 +0200
            Re: What is the reason for defining classes within classes in Python? vasudevram <vasudevram@gmail.com> - 2013-04-24 06:29 -0700

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