Abstraction in Python?
Posted: 23 Jun 2022, 14:16
I'm trying to pick up Python for a project, and I'm a bit confused about how to use abstraction and classes. (I'm not a very experienced programmer, so apologies for the basic level of this question.) I come from a Java/Ocaml background, and what I've been trying to do is as follows: I have abstract classes for a graph and a graph advanced (a graph with some more fancy methods), that looks something like this
I then have an implementation of a graph:
Now my question is: can I do something like this?
In other words, how can I define the methods of Advanced abstractly in terms of the methods of AbstractGraph, and then somehow pass Graph into a constructor to get an instance of Advanced that uses Advanced's definitions with Graph's implementation?
In terms of Ocaml, I'm trying to treat AbstractAdvanced and AbstractGraph as module types, but I've played around a little with python and I'm not sure how to get this to work.
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class AbstractGraph:
def method1(self):
raise NotImplementedError
...
class AbstractAdvanced:
def method2(self):
raise NotImplementedError
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class Graph(AbstractGraph):
def method1(self):
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class Advanced(AbstractAdvanced, AbstractGraph):
def method2(self):
*actual code, using the methods from AbstractGraph*In terms of Ocaml, I'm trying to treat AbstractAdvanced and AbstractGraph as module types, but I've played around a little with python and I'm not sure how to get this to work.