Larry Bates wrote:
> novice wrote:
> > hello over there!
> > I have the following question:
> > Suppose I created a class: class Point:
> > pass
> > then instanciated an instance: new = Point()
> > So now how to get the instance new as a string: like ' new ' ; Is
> > there any built in function or method
> > for eg:
> >
> > class Point:
> > def _func_that_we_want_(self):
> > return .......
> > new._func_that_we_want_() ---> ' new '
> >
>
> Just a wild guess, but I think he wants to refer to it by a
> name. The best way to do this is to put the class instance
> in a dictionary and make the key 'new'
>
> instancedict={}
> instancedict['new']=Point()
>
> then you can call methods by:
>
> instancedict['new'].somemethod()
>
> -Larry Bates
Maybe it's more in the way of the builtin function *eval*...
example (you decide if this is what you mean ;-) )
>>> class toto(object):
... def max(self):
... return 12
...
>>> t=toto()
>>> eval("t.max")
<bound method toto.max of <__main__.toto object at 0x00D4BB90>>
>>> eval("t.max()")
12
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