I'm writing a module which only contains functions. Is it good practice to put these inside a class, even if there are no class arguments and the __init__ function is pointless? And if so how should I write it?
Should modules always contain a class?
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There's no particular reason to force functions to go inside a class if there's no reason to make a class. A python sourcefile already provide a perfectly reasonable namespace for storing similar, related functions. The pypy implementation of the python programming language, for example, has many modules that don't have classes in them (for example, time).
You would want a certain data structure as a class, of course, but there are certain behaviors that are entirely independent of data structures, and putting them in a class would just add needless complexity.
It is good to build modules that contain a class for better organization and manipulation depending on how big the code is and how it will be used, but yes it is good to get use to building classes with methods in them. Can you post your code?
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