Hallöchen!
Gabriel Genellina writes:
> On 30 dic, 17:25, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> I sub-classed unicode in an own class called "Excerpt", and now I
>> try to implement a __unicode__ method. In this method, I want to
>> get the actual value of the instance, i.e. the unicode string:
>
> The "actual value of the instance", given that it inherits from
> unicode, is... self.
But then it is not unicode but Excerpt which I don't want. The idea
is to buffer the unicode representation in order to gain efficiency.
Otherwise, a lot of unicode conversion would take place.
> Are you sure you *really* want to inherit from unicode? Don't you
> want to store an unicode object as an instance attribute?
No, I need many unicode operations (concatenating, slicing, ...).
> [...]
>
>> However, unicode(super(Excerpt, self)) is also forbidden because
>> super() allows attribute access only (why by the way?).
>
> (because its purpose is to allow cooperative methods in a multiple
> inheritance hierarchy)
It would be more useful, however, if it returned full-fledged
objects. Or if there was another way to get a full-fledged mother
object.
Tschö,
Torsten.
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