On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Rather than editing the existing code and making it non standard > why not subclass robotparser: > > class WP_RobotParser(robotparser): > def __init__(self, *args, *kwargs): > robotparser.__init__(self, *args, *kwargs) > self.addheaders = .......blah.... > > Thats one of the advantages of OOP, you can change the way > classes work without modifying the original code. And thus not > breaking any code that relies on the original behaviour. That won't work, it is urllib.URLOpener() that he is patching and robotparser does not supply a way to change the URLOpener subclass that it uses. Ken _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
