<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Spencer,</div><div><br></div><div>Something that bugged me in the past as well. It would be nicer to have everyone inherit from a single point, but since Atoms don't have children, it would be confusing to have these methods there. My understanding is that Entity only exists to provide methods to handle iteration over children objects. It's a compromise?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the efforts in typing the module!</div><div><br></div><div>João<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Spencer Bliven <<a href="mailto:spencer.bliven@gmail.com">spencer.bliven@gmail.com</a>> escreveu no dia terça, 3/09/2019 à(s) 22:53:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">I was wondering why Atom doesn't inherit from Entity. It doesn't have children, but it seems like it would be more consistent to have the whole Structure stack inherit from a single point. Is anyone aware of the history there?</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">I ask because I'm trying to add type annotations to Bio.PDB, and mypy flagged a number of places where my initial 'Entity' type conflicted with Atoms. We can certainly get around this by accepting either Entity or Atom, but I'm not sure that was intended.</div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px">-Spencer</div><br><div class="gmail-m_-610942239427179064gmail_signature"></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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