JoshReuben,
Back in the day, I did a fair bit of work with BioPython – I thought it was time to revisit this glue language ! Classes Python allows for the definition of classes. The builtin __init__ function serves as the ctor. Remember to pass self as 1st param to all class functions class MyClass(): def __init__(self): self.y = 5 def doSomething(self): pass x = MyClass() x.doSomething() Static methods use @classmethod to specify that a function is static – dont have to instantiate to call it. class MyClass(): @classmethod def doSomething(self): pass MyClass.doSomething() Inheritance Python supports inheritance. ...