On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Art<grenan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have the following problem: > > ipdb> p type(self) > <class 'component.BiasComponent'> > > ipdb> isinstance(self, component.BiasComponent) > False > > I thought that isinstance(obj, type(obj)) == True. > > The specific problem is when I try to call the super of a class and it > only occurs after 'reload'ing the file in the interpreter. What am I > messing up by reloading? It doesn't occur if I using for the first > time in a fresh interpreter session. > > ---> 32 class BiasComponent(ModelComponent): > 33 def __init__(self, g, model): > 34 super(BiasComponent, self).__init__(g, model) > > TypeError: super(type, obj): obj must be an instance or subtype of > type > > Seems like the self passed to __init__ is messed up in some way.
I would guess you're running into one of the caveats of using reload(); see http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#reload Printing out id(BiasComponent) and id(type(obj)) both before and after the reload() call should be instructive. Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
