On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Tomaz Bevec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your reply Alan, > > I am partially asking out of interest, but I also have a potential > application. > > I'm working on a simulation of cellular growth patterns (basically cell > instances interacting stochastically on a lattice). Anyway, there are many > different cell "behaviors" that I have to simulate, and cells can potentially > gain and lose these "behaviors" over the course of the simulation. It would > be too much to put every behavior function in the cell class, so I'm writing > each behavior as a mixin and mixing it in (and initializing it) when > necessary or when biological function is gained by the cells.
Perhaps you could keep the behaviors in a dictionary? You could override __getattr__() in the cell class to look up attributes whose names start with 'behavior' in the dict. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
