Re: [Tutor] help with refactoring needed -- which approach is morePythonic?

[Brian van den Broek]

Alan Gauld said unto the world upon 2005-02-10 02:58:
Pseudo code:
       class Body:
          def __init__(self,content):
            self.contents = contents
            self.nodes = []
          def parse(self):
             for line in self.contents:
                 if line == NodeStartTag:
                    node = Node()
                 if line == NodeEndTag:
                    self.nodes.append(node)
                 node.append(line)
       class Node:
         def __init__(self,lines=[]):
              self.lines = lines
         def append(self,item):
              self.lines.append(item)
         def parse(self):
              # your parsing method here.
Hi all,
YAQ (Yet Another Question):
Following the general pattern, I end up with a Body object which has 
an attribute .nodes that consists of a list of Node objects.

So, something like:
My Example Body
   Node List
      Node the first
      Node the second
Is there any way to make methods of the Node class access attributes 
of `parents' of instances? I would like a Node instance such as Node 
the first above to be aware just what it is a node of and what its 
siblings are.

Does this make sense?
Best to all,
Brian vdB
PS Thanks for the reply to my venting question, Kent.
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