On Apr 23, 10:44 am, barbaros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If I understand correctly, in the above implementation I cannot
> define firstly a (non-oriented) body, and then build, on top of it,
> two bodies with opposite orientations. The point is, I want
> both oriented bodies to share the same base Body object.
What you are describing is composition+delegation, not inheritance,
and it would be the same answer in Java, C++, or OO-langue-du-jour.
Python makes delegation to the contained object easier than the others
(except maybe for OOldj) - no need to implement all the methods of the
contained object in the container, that just delegate the call to the
contained; use __getattr__ to get attributes of the contained object
that are not defined on the container (methods are attributes, too) as
shown below. No inheritance in this example at all.
-- Paul
class BodyWithoutOrientation(object):
def __init__(self,color):
self.color = color
def show_orientation(self):
print "I don't lean one way or the other"
class OrientedBody(object):
def __init__(self,base,orientation):
self.base_body = base
self.orientation = orientation
def show_orientation(self):
print "I lean to the " + \
{
OrientedBody.RIGHT : "right",
OrientedBody.LEFT : "left",
}[self.orientation],
print "and my color is " + self.color
# delegate any other attr lookups to the base_body object
def __getattr__(self,attr):
return getattr(self.base_body,attr)
OrientedBody.RIGHT = object()
OrientedBody.LEFT = object()
class LeftRightBody(object):
def __init__(self,b):
self.common_base = b
self.left = OrientedBody(b,OrientedBody.LEFT)
self.right = OrientedBody(b,OrientedBody.RIGHT)
def show_orientation(self):
print "I do both of these:"
print "- ",
self.left.show_orientation()
print "- ",
self.right.show_orientation()
base = BodyWithoutOrientation("purple")
lr = LeftRightBody(base)
base.show_orientation()
lr.show_orientation()
Prints:
I don't lean one way or the other
I do both of these:
- I lean to the left and my color is purple
- I lean to the right and my color is purple
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