On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Olive <di...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> I am creating a new class: package (to analyse the packages database in
> some linux distros). I have created a class package such that
> package("string") give me an instance of package if string is a correct
> representation of a package. I would like that if pack is already an
> instance of package then package(pack) just return pack.
One way would be to make the name "package" actually a wrapper
function, not the class itself:
>>> class _package:
def __init__(self,arg):
# blah blah
self.asdf=arg
>>> def package(arg):
if isinstance(arg,_package): return arg
return _package(arg)
>>> a=package("Test")
>>> b=package(a)
>>> a is b
True
The leading underscore is a common convention meaning "private
implementation detail".
Chris Angelico
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