On 5/12/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steven Bethard wrote:
>
> > Yep. The 'self' passed to __finalize__ is still an instance of the
> > same class (e.g. BufferedWriter or MyWriter). So inheritance works
> > normally:
>
> However, if the overridden method uses any attributes
> not mentioned in the original __finalattrs__, they
> will need to be added to it somehow.
>
> It might be useful if the metaclass gathered up the
> contents of __finalattr__ from the class and all its
> base classes. Then a class could just list its
> own needed attributes without having to worry about
> those needed by its base classes.
You already don't need to list the attributes from the base classes.
The __finalattrs__ are converted into class level descriptors, so if
class D inherits from class C, it has the __finalattrs__ descriptors
for both classes.
Did you try it and find that it didn't work?
STeVe
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