Alex Martelli wrote: > John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > 6. Alex's magnum opus appears to operate on problem a, and maybe on b > > (it's over my head). It involves a fair chunk of mucking about -- for > > A dozen lines of code to write *ONCE* and put in your utilities module > is a "magnum opus" and "a fair chunk of mucking about"?! Oh my -- I > wonder what would count for you as parvus and incredibly tiny -- SIX > lines? THREE? ONE AND A HALF, for Pete's sake?!?!?!
"Magnum opus" was exaggerated politeness. > > If your problem with my code is simply that it uses parts of Python that > you're not familiar about, then I count this as a positive aspect of my > code, not a negative one: by providing motivation to study metaclasses > and inspect (by givin some small usefulness in very small space) it may > help you indirectly far more than directly. Thank you for the motivation. I now understand what it is attempting to do. Unfortunately it doesn't succeed. Instead of: if v is notimplemented: abstract_methods.append(n) you need: if v.im_func is notimplemented: abstract_methods.append(n) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
