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		riffraff on Jan 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OO in Python is mostly pointless Why? There are plenty of OO libraries where method calls do not change the object.

Kototama on Jan 28, 2021 [–]

There is but it's mostly not how OO programs are built. And even assuming you have most of the core of your program behaving properly and clearly with non-mutable objects. What do you gain from having objects at this point?

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