On Sep 17, 11:54 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 17, 8:27 pm, rantingrick <rantingr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > ok i have a class and in it's constructor i want to create a copy of > > it as an attribute, i have tried super, __new__, and noting seems to > > work, please help! > > > class A(base): > > def __init__(self): > > super(A, self).__init__() > > self.nested = ? > > > think of a nested list [ [] ] but with object "A" as the toplevel list > > and having an instance of A in the attribute "nested" > > Well, to answer the question you asked ("i have a class and in it's > constructor i want to create a copy of it as an attribute"): > > import copy > > self.nested = copy.copy(self) > > However, your post contains some conflicting information, "copy" often > means different things to different people, "it" is ambiguous, and > what you ask for seems to to be well-conceived. I think we will be > able to help you more if you give more details about what you expect > and how you intend to use this nested object. > > Please try to observe the distiction between classes and instances > (you almost certainly wanted a copy of the instance, not of the > class). > > Carl Banks
ok here is some code. this will cause an infinite recursion. class A(): def __init__(self, *args): self.nestedA = A(*args) #NO GOOD! there must be a way to create an instance of an object within the same objects constructor? TIA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list