On 7 dec 2005, at 06.21, Adrian Holovaty wrote:
But my rationale for changing to the magic object approach is: If we
move to class-based lookups (Person.objects.get_list() rather than
people.get_list()), the class will have been imported *anyway*, so
it's not too much of a big deal to have to use it.
The other magic-thread was too hot for me, I'll jump in here instead...
I find the use of "objects" as a way of namespace separation a bit
off-putting. Enforcing an invocation-style via stack inspection would
cut down on the line-noise. Not a terribly big deal, just how I'd try
to do it unless there'd be something that precludes it...
import inspect
class TestClass:
@classmethod
def get_list(*args):
frame = inspect.currentframe()
frame = frame.f_back
if not frame.f_locals:
# called via Class
print 'class'
else:
# called via an instance, raise InvalidInvocationError
or something...
print 'instance'
raise Exception
def main():
TestClass.get_list('test')
test = TestClass()
test.get_list('test')
if __name__ == '__main__': main()
regards,
- Daniel
