Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!usenet-fr.net!nerim.net!novso.com!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.071 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.87; '*S*': 0.01; 'python': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'message- id:@dough.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'sure.': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'java': 0.21; 'example': 0.23; 'non': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'url:wiki': 0.26; 'plain': 0.27; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'url:wikipedia': 0.29; "i'm": 0.29; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.32; 'to:addr:python- list': 0.33; 'received:org': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'mark': 0.38; 'sure': 0.38; 'url:en': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'subject:, ': 0.61; 'overcome': 0.71; 'opinions': 0.72; 'knee': 0.84; 'medication': 0.84; 'habit': 0.91; 'kat': 0.91; 'qualities': 0.91; 'subject:skip:E 10': 0.95 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:35:20 +0100 References: <3vnfd9-343.ln1@satorlaser.homedns.org> <-8SdnVrXGqie25jNnZ2dnUVZ7qKdnZ2d@bt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-78-147-26-24.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120614 Thunderbird/13.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 120717-0, 17/07/2012), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 22 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1342532004 news.xs4all.nl 6981 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:47936 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:25498 On 17/07/2012 12:44, Lipska the Kat wrote: > > You're not kidding, the 'duck' example at > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing made me check I hadn't overdone > the medication this morning. That is just plain ...weird. It will take > me a while to form non knee jerk opinions of this for sure. > > Lipska > > It's difficult to get junkies off of their addictive substances but I'm sure that the qualities of Python will eventually overcome your Java habit :) -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence.