On 13/06/2011 15:26, Charlie Clark wrote:
>> In order to get the object itself back from such an adaptation, you need
>> to use the default= argument.
>
> I know that the question has been answered but your question makes me ask
> another: why would you want to adapt an object with itself?
I have something, I want something that implements IWhatever.
Now, it may well be that something implements IWhatever, but it may also
not. As the author of the code in question, I don't want to have to care.
Other authors can plug in adapters for the cases where something doesn't
implement IWhatever ;-)
cheers,
Chris
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