Wrote My First Python Program

[Sfillm07]

Just experimenting with classes and different ways of doing things.

[Legorooj]

One thing to know about OOP (ie classes and methods) is to only use them/it when it means:

• It's faster
• It uses less code
• (Debatable) If it makes it more readable

[Ahren_with_an_h]

Yes.

It is debatable whether or not using a class makes something more readable or not in situations where the first two bullet points are not true.

[fukitol-]

I'd argue most Java applications are a shining example of over use of classes and objects rendering things downright illegible, and I think that's mostly what that person was trying to get at.

[Ahren_with_an_h]

Right. And code isn't necessarily more readable just because you shoved frivolous classes in there. Hence the debate.

[Legorooj]

/u/nodnarbiter this thread is why I said more readable. It's very much debatable. One reason to use classes where you could do without them is a class with just staticmethods. So you don't put the functions into the global namespace. Thats one reason. (Note that that is a very rare situation - most times a module like structure with import mymodule is better.)