I want to build a parser object that handles two different log file formats. I have an object that handles Connection logs and an object for Filter logs. Each will instantiate a Parser object, passing in the path to individual log files.
There are a number of ways I could figure out whether I am dealing with connection or filter log. I could pass it in when creating the Parser, but that doesn't seem very pythonic. I could figure out the type of log file a particular instance of the Parser is working with by looking at the format of the file. This wouldn't be hard but it seems unnecessary. It would be jiffy if I could find what kind of object instantiated that particular parser. So if a FilterLog object instantiated it, the parser would know to parse a Filter log. Can the Parser object know who its Daddy is? Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
