On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Roberto Martínez <robertomartin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Roberto Martínez >> <robertomartin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> The workaround of calling a different method inside __call__ is not valid >>> for my case because I want to change the *signature* of the function also >>> -for introspection reasons. >> >> >> You could define __call__ like so: >> >> def __call__(self, *args, **kwds): >> self._my_call(*args, **kwds) > > > This was my first approach, but it is not very informative to the user and I > prefer to have arguments with descriptive names. We have to change __doc__ > too, so this is not an ideal solution for me. > > I tried to implement __getattribute__, but is not called either. :(
I'd suggest starting a new thread on python-list (or stack overflow or whatever) explaining what the heck you're trying to do here and asking for higher-level advice/suggestions, because your current implementation strategy seems to have placed you on a path that is rapidly descending past "spaghetti" towards "tentacular". (Or alternatively I guess you could go all in: Iä! Iä! Metaclasses Fhtagn!) -n -- Nathaniel J. Smith Postdoctoral researcher - Informatics - University of Edinburgh http://vorpus.org -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
