[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm working with a team that's doing social modeling, and for example, > I need to model workers that at some point in the program may or may > not also become employers. Now, I want the workers to take on all > behaviors and attributes of an employer in addition to their > pre-existing "worker" behaviors and attributes. Also, as I'm sure you > guessed, the workers' attributes need to retain their values at that > point in the program, so a brand new worker-employer object wouldn't in > itself do the trick.
so why not just do that, instead of trying to come up with overly convoluted ways to abuse a class mechanism that you don't fully understand ? I suspect that your team would prefer if you got your inspiration from GoF instead of Goldberg. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list