On Mar 11, 12:52 pm, Piet van Oostrum <p...@cs.uu.nl> wrote:
> >>>>> Aaron Brady <castiro...@gmail.com> (AB) wrote:
> >AB> Hello,
> >AB> I am creating a container. I have some types which are built to be
> >AB> members of the container. The members need to know which container
> >AB> they are in, as they call methods on it, such as finding other
> >AB> members. I want help with the syntax to create the members.
> >AB> Currently, the container has to be a parameter to the instantiation
> >AB> methods. I want the option to create members with attribute syntax
> >AB> instead.
> >AB> Currently, I have:
> >AB> cA= Container( )
> >AB> obA= SomeType( cA )
> >AB> obB= OtherType( cA, otherarg )
> >AB> I want:
> >AB> cA= Container( )
> >AB> obA= cA.SomeType( )
> >AB> obB= cA.OtherType( otherarg )
> >AB> What are my options?
> >AB> P.S. The container and members are C extension types, not pure Python.
>
> You could do something like this (translated to C)
>
> class Container(object):
> def __init__(self):
> self.items = []
> def add(self, item):
> self.items.append(item)
> def SomeType(self):
> newobj = SomeType()
> self.add(newobj)
> def OtherType(self, arg):
> newobj = OtherType(arg)
> self.add(newobj)
>
> class SomeType(object):
> def __init__(self):
> pass
>
> class OtherType(SomeType):
> def __init__(self, arg):
> SomeType.__init__(self)
> self.x = arg
>
> cA = Container()
> obA = cA.SomeType()
> obB = cA.OtherType(5)
> print cA.items
>
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I like it. It's a combination of andrew's suggestion, and what I've
been considering. What I did was (approximately):
class Container:
def __init__( self ):
self.SomeType= type( 'BoundSomeType', (SomeType,),
{ '__new__': custom_new } )
self.OtherType= type( 'BoundOtherType', (OtherType,),
{ '__new__': custom_new } )
cA = Container()
obA = cA.SomeType()
obB = cA.OtherType(5)
It has the advantage that 'cA.SomeType' is a subclass of SomeType;
specifically, that it responds in kind to SomeType. It's a bit
heavyweight on the consumption of resources. 'custom_new' actually
returns an instance of the base.
I am looking for ways to allow user-defined subclasses.
class CustomType( cA.MemberBase ):
...
obC= CustomType( ) #unusable in other instances
-or-
class CustomType( MemberBase ):
...
obC= cA.CustomType( ) #explicit member or dynamic (Gabriel)?
#of base (Piet) or instance (andrew)?
-or-
class CustomType( MemberBase ):
...
obC= CustomType( ) #disallow "as attribute" creation
Or, some combination of -2- and -1- or -3-.
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