Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > Hi all, > > I created a class which creates a relative unique id string, now my > program just works fine and as expected but somehow I get the feeling > that I misused the __repr__ since I guess people expect to 'execute' a > function in an instance instead of using it's representation string of > the instance itself, could you elaborate whether you find this bad > practice and if yes what would have been a better way to do it? > > TIA >
Rather than comment on the style of using a class, I'll just suggest an alternative. You can use a generator function, which yields the next id when called; at least that's how I'd implement an IDgenerator. Cheers, Keir. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
