Nigel Rantor wrote: > Peter Otten wrote: >> Nigel Rantor wrote: >> >>> Peter Otten wrote: >>>> Nigel Rantor wrote: >> >>>>> So, if I have a tool that generates python code for me (in my case, >>>>> CORBA stubs/skels) in a particular package is there a way of >>>>> placing my >>>>> own code under the same package hierarchy without all the code >>>>> living in >>>>> the same directory structure. >> >>>> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-pkgutil.html >> >>> Yep, looks like that should work, but it doesn't. :-/ >>> >>> Do you have any idea whether other __init__.py scripts from the same >>> logical module will still be run in this case? >> >> I don't think it will. > > Yeah, I am getting that impression. Gah! > >>> The generated code uses its init script to pull in other code. >> >> You could invoke it explicitly via >> execfile("/path/to/generated/package/__init__.py") >> in the static package/__init__.py. > > Hmm, yes, that works. It's not pretty though, it seems to be finding the > file relative to the current directory, I suppose writing a bit of code > that figures out where this package is located and modifying it won't be > too hard. > > And, at the risk of being flamed or sounding like a troll, this seems > like something that should be easy to do...other languages manage it > quite neatly. Up until this point I was really liking my exposure to > Python :-/ > > I wonder if there is any more magic that I'm missing, the thing is the > pkgutil method looks exactly like what I want, except for not executing > the additional __init__.py files in the added directories. > > Thanks for the help so far Peter, if anyone has a prettier solution then > I'm all ears. > > Cheers, > > n > > > > >
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but it sounds like you are over-complicating the idea of inheritance. Do you just want to create a subclass of the other class? Cheers, Cliff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
