On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 11:19 AM nate lust <natel...@linux.com> wrote:
> Typing this out though does make me think of an interesting idea. If there
> was something like __getself__ in addition to __setself__, you could
> implement things like MyInt. __getself__ would look something like:
>
> class MyInt:
> def __init__(self, value):
> self.value = value
> def __getself__(self):
> return self.value
> def __setself__(self, value):
> raise ValueError("Cant set MyInt")
> x = MyInt(2)
> print(x) -> 2
> type(x) -> MyInt
>
> Now I have not really thought through how this would work, if it could work...
How does print know to call getself, but type know not to?
ChrisA
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