On the topic of eliminating simplistic classes: one of things an object is for is to enclose multiple pieces of data and provide multiple methods that access that data.

If one can compose ones problem into a lot of classes of object that only have one method then it is quite acceptable to just use closures instead:

  HI = ‘Hello’
  def greeter(title, name):
    def f():
      print(HI, title, name)
    return f

I wrote a whole bunch of Python like this, yesterday. It felt liberating! So terse!

Downside: one very common reason to have more than one method in a class is to define __str__. There will be no pretty debug printable version of my greeter() “class” for me, alas.