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OOP in Python, part 20: Highlights, and beyond this series
MP 67: What were the most important takeaways? What would come next?
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OOP in Python, part 19: When do you need OOP?
MP 66: And when do you not need to use OOP?
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Was this October really warmer than most Octobers?
MP 65: It was in many places, but what about my local area?
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OOP in Python, part 18: Composition and inheritance
MP 64: A mix of the two approaches is often the most practical solution.
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OOP in Python, part 17: Composition
MP 63: An important complement to inheritance.
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October 2023
Toward sustainable development practices in open source
MP 62: An insightful initiative to bring new contributors to an established project.
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OOP in Python, part 16: Class structure in Matplotlib
MP 61: Understanding how the Figure and Axes classes are implemented.
The rule of three for generality
MP #60: In pursuit of correct abstractions.
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OOP in Python, part 15: Class structure in pathlib
MP 59: How file paths are modeled in pathlib.
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Does order matter in urls.py?
MP 58: Yes, but not for the reason I originally thought.
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OOP in Python, part 14: The Exception class hierarchy
MP 57: How exceptions are implemented in Python, and what they can show us about class hierarchies.
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