I'm a pygtk programmer (I wrote GNOME Sudoku and Gourmet Recipe Manager) and was recently excited to see a simple podcast-reader called gpodder written in pygtk.
Anyway, I took a look at the source to try to make some quick fixes, and found myself feeling completely disoriented. After a minute, I realized what was strange — there were no classes.
I've always used an OO style in python (I think that's the right bit of jargon). For the GUI part of my app, I tend to have a class for any chunk of the interface (for a simple app like this one, that would be just one class), and then classes for the main functions. For a pod-cast retriever, I might imagine something like:
- FeedFetcher (handle URL fetching)
- Prefs (handle configuration)
- MainApp (handle GUI)
Is this what most python programmers would do, or is a completely classless style commonplace? I'm self-taught, so I don't know what's normal, but I never read a pygtk example that used only functions, so I wanted to ask if this was a standard style of programming I didn't know about or something.
