Carl Banks schrieb: > On Feb 7, 10:17 am, "Carl Banks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Feb 7, 8:51 am, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Martin v. Löwis schrieb: >> >> > > I'm happy to announce partial 1.0; a module to implement >> > > partial classes in Python. It is available from >> >> > >http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/partial/1.0 >> >> > > A partial class is a fragment of a class definition; >> > > partial classes allow to spread the definition of >> > > a class over several modules. One location serves >> > > as the original definition of the class. >> >> > > To extend a class original_module.FullClass with >> > > an additional function, one writes >> >> > > from partial import * >> > > import original_module >> >> > > class ExtendedClass(partial, original_module.FullClass): >> > > def additional_method(self, args): >> > > body >> > > more_methods >> >> > > This module is licensed under the Academic Free License v3.0. >> >> > > Please send comments and feedback to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > Nice idea. >> >> Indeed. I was going to make a post asking for advice on high-level >> delegation (basically you have a generic mostly-OO framework, which >> the user extends mostly by subclassing, but how do the generic classes >> know about the user-extened classes?). I knew of many solutions, but >> all had significant drawbacks. But this seems like it'd work great, >> maybe with a few minor inconveniences but nothing like the icky hacks >> I've been using. >> >> Ironic, since I myself posted a very simple example of how to do this >> with a class hook here on c.l.python a while back. > > And looking back at that post, I said that using such a hack would be > "truly evil". To every thing there is a season....
Do you have a pointer to that post? Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list