Hi
My cryptic subject is perhaps not sufficient - I'll try to make it a little
better:
Assume you'd like to write something like:
import someClass
x = someClass.open("someFile")
Here '.open' should read in the data and initialize the instance - with or
without calling __init__.
How is this to implement? Up to now I rather wrote something like x =
someClass(somePrepFunction("someFile")) where the return value of
somePrepFunction was used
to initialize x or called the conventional 'open' within __init__. But is there
no direct approach like
in my pseudo-code?
My problem is that if I simply define open as a method of someClass (with
def open(self,file_name):
#somecode
pass
) all I get is:
TypeError: unbound method open() must be called with someClass instance as
first argument
(got str instance instead)
Which is perfectly understandable. But what is a possible workaround? (Instead
of 'open' I could,
of course, better use some other keyword which is no Python keyword.)
Any hints?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Christian
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