Sorry for the double post! Went off by mistake before I was done ...
Anyhow, I would like to have a tuple defined at the beginning of my
code that includes classes *before* they are defined ... as such (this
is on-the-fly-hack-code just for demonstrating my question):
VIDEO_TYPES = (
(SyncYoutube,
re.compile(r'([^(]|^)http://www\.youtube\.com/watch\?\S*v=(?P<youtubeid>[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)\S*'),),
(SyncVimeo, re.compile(#more regex here#),),
(SyncBlip, re.compile(#more regex here#),),
)
class Video(object):
url = "http://youtube.com/xxxx";
#variables ...
def sync(self):
for videotype in VIDEO_TYPES:
#check the url against the regex,
# if it matches then initiate the appropriate class and
pass it the current "self" object
sync = videotype[0](self).sync()
class SyncYoutube(object):
def __init__(self,video):
self.video = video
def sync(self):
#do some custom Youtube syncing here
class SyncBlip(object):
#etc
This way, I can get any video object and simply run Video.sync() and
it will figure out which "sync" to run. However, I am finding (of
course) that I can't reference a class that hasn't been defined!
I know this is a rush-job question, but I am hoping someone seems my
quandary and maybe has a way around it. I am learning python as we
speak!
Thanks! And sorry for the double post.
Damon
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Damon Timm<damont...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I would like to have a tuple that holds information, as such:
>
> VIDEO_TYPES = (
> (SyncYoutube,
> re.compile(r'([^(]|^)http://www\.youtube\.com/watch\?\S*v=(?P<youtubeid>[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)\S*'),),
>
> )
>
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