Learning by doing: Reading books and trying to understand the (code) examples
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# duck typing example taken from wikipedia
# https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck-Typing
class Bird:
"Birds have a name that they return in string represention"
def __init__(self, name):
self.name = name
def __str__(self):
return self.__class__.__name__+' '+self.name
class Duck(Bird):
"Ducks are birds which can quak"
def quak(self):
print(str(self)+': quak')
class Frog:
"Frogs also can quak"
def quak(self):
print(str(self)+': quak')
def main():
ducks = [Bird('Gustav'), Duck('Donald'), object()]
for duck in ducks:
# exception handling when object hasn't quak method
try:
duck.quak()
except AttributeError:
print('No duck:', duck)
ducks.append(Frog())
for duck in ducks:
# we also can use hasattr() function instead of exception handling
if hasattr(duck, 'quak'):
duck.quak()
else:
print('No duck:', duck)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()