Python: How can I separate functions of class into multiple files?

Question

I know this has been asked a couple of times, but I couldn\'t quite understand the previous answers and/or I don\'t think the solution quite represents what I\'m shooting fo

Answer 1

Here is an implementation of @Martijn Pieters♦'s comment to use subclasses:

main.py:

from separate import BaseClass

class MainClass(BaseClass):
    def long_func_1(self, a, b):
        if self.global_var_1:
            ...
        self.func_2(z)
        ...
        return ...
    # Lots of other similar functions that use info from BaseClass

separate.py:

class BaseClass(object):

    # You almost always want to initialize instance variables in the `__init__` method.
    def __init__(self):
        self.global_var_1 = ...
        self.global_var_2 = ...

    def func_1(self, x, y):
        ...
    def func_2(self, z):
        ...
    # tons of similar functions, and then the ones I moved out:
    #
    # Why are there "tons" of _similar_ functions?
    # Remember that functions can be defined to take a
    # variable number of/optional arguments, lists/tuples
    # as arguments, dicts as arguments, etc.

from main import MainClass
m = MainClass()
m.func_1(1, 2)
....