Re: Creating an instance when the argument is already an instance.

2012-07-06 Thread Olive
On 05 Jul 2012 11:55:33 GMT Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote: On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:29:24 +0200, Olive wrote: I am learning python -:) I am creating a new class: package (to analyse the packages database in some linux distros). I have created a class package

Creating an instance when the argument is already an instance.

2012-07-05 Thread Olive
I am learning python -:) I am creating a new class: package (to analyse the packages database in some linux distros). I have created a class package such that package(string) give me an instance of package if string is a correct representation of a package. I would like that if pack is already an

Re: Creating an instance when the argument is already an instance.

2012-07-05 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Olive di...@bigfoot.com wrote: I am creating a new class: package (to analyse the packages database in some linux distros). I have created a class package such that package(string) give me an instance of package if string is a correct representation of a

Re: Creating an instance when the argument is already an instance.

2012-07-05 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:29:24 +0200, Olive wrote: I am learning python -:) I am creating a new class: package (to analyse the packages database in some linux distros). I have created a class package such that package(string) give me an instance of package if string is a correct

Re: Creating an instance when the argument is already an instance.

2012-07-05 Thread Hans Mulder
On 5/07/12 12:47:52, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Olive di...@bigfoot.com wrote: I am creating a new class: package (to analyse the packages database in some linux distros). I have created a class package such that package(string) give me an instance of package if