Ok, so I can see the value of MixIn() in some cases rather than subclassing, depending on what you are doing. However in my case, I wanted to replace the createApplication method on ThreadedAppServer, and I tried doing this in the __init__ method of my module.
I need to import my module prior to starting the ThreadedAppServer because I want to affect how the ThreadedAppServer starts. If I do this, then the Application method addContext() fails to call contextInitialize() because the module has already been loaded. Perhaps addContext() should be maintaining a list of contexts which have been initialized, rather than just initializing them if addContext() is the actual place where they are loaded? -Stuart- > -----Original Message----- > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ian > Bicking > ... > It's not so much a Python thing. I originally thought > subclassing would > be best, but I realized that they it can be awkward in some ways. > > If you want to use local subclassing you could always just change the > import statement to use your local subclass. This won't be entirely > seemless for upgrading, but I don't think that's a big problem. Of > course, you couldn't easily distribute the enhanced class -- > but I think > that's a problem anyway with subclassing. You can distribute a > subclassing of a single class, but that doesn't leave a good > way to use > two customizations (even though they might not otherwise conflict). > > Even if it seems kind of weird, I think the mixin approach solves most > of these -- if you make your customization into a plug-in, it > can change > the classes when its initialized. This should make it easy to > distribute customizations. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html _______________________________________________ Webware-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-devel
