Hello,
I was just playing a bit with Python and I wanted to make a mutable string,
that supports item assignment. Is the way below the way to do this?
The part I am not sure about is the class variable. Maybe I should also have
reimplemented __init__, then call super inside this and add an updated version
of "self" so __repr__ and __str__ return that. More general: when should class
variables be used? I am reading about Django nd there they are all over the
place, yet I have always had the impression their use is not that common.
# Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:53:58) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
class MutableStr(str):
s = None
def __repr__(self):
return MutableStr.s
def __str__(self):
return MutableStr.s
def __setitem__(self, key, item):
print self[:key], item, self[key+1:]
self = MutableStr.s = self[:key] + item + self[key+1:]
return self
# all results below are as intended
>>> mstr = MutableStr("01234X678")
>>> mstr[5] = "&"
01234 & 678
>>> mstr
01234&678
>>> str(mstr)
'01234&678'
>>> unicode(mstr)
u'01234&678'
Regards,
Albert-Jan
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