Re: [Webware-discuss] extraURLPath is a special case of mod_rewrite

[Chuck E. <ec...@mi...>]

At 12:50 PM 1/10/2001 -0500, Geoff Talvola wrote:
>In order to write COMKit, I didn't have to know any details about
>ThreadedAppServer -- I just had to know that I was supposed to write a 
>subclass
>that defined initThread() and delThread().

Isn't OOP nice?  :-)


>Similarly, hooks into Application can be stub methods that are intended to be
>overridden by a subclass.  You just need to have documentation that tells you
>which things you are supposed to override in your subclass, but you don't need
>to read Application.py.
>
>To me, this approach seems cleaner than having the stubs be arbitrary
>functions.  Or maybe I'm just blinded by the fact that Python is cool 
>enough to
>allow subclassing of an existing object on the fly :-)