On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:45 PM, metal <metal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Consider the following: <snip> > class Parent: > def some_method(self): > return Parent(...) > class Child: > pass > ######################################## > > Child().some_method() returns a Parent instance. > > We can rewrite Parent like this to avoid that > > ######################################## > class Parent: > def some_method(self): > return self.__class__(...) > class Child: > def some_method(self): > ... > return Parent.some_method(self) > ######################################## > > But this style makes code full with ugly self.__class__ > > Any standard/pythonic way out there?
That pretty much is the standard way AFAIK. A few underscores aren't all that bad in the grand scheme of things. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
