I've created a class that reads in and processes a file in the initializer __init__. The processing is fairly substantial, and thus, instead of processing the file every time the object is created, I pickle the object to a file.
In subsequent creations of the object, I implement a test to see whether the pickled file exists. If it does, then I unpickle the object. Unfortunately, the __init__ cannot return this unpickled object. I've used an auxiliary member function which fixes the problem, but I would prefer to have the correct object returned at instantiation rather than returned from the auxiliary member function. Are there other ways of approaching this problem? Thanks, Yin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
