On Sat, 14 May 2011, Alan Gauld wrote:
Is there any reason you can'tt override in the uisual way by inheritance?
Doh! Of course I should. I've written plenty of classes before, but
never one intended to be inherited, and now that you point it out, it's
obvious that that's what I should be
"Terry Carroll" wrote in message
I have a pretty basic point of confusion that I'm hoping I can have
explained to me. I have a class in which I want to override a
method, and have my method defined externally to the class definition
invoked instead.
Is there any reason you can'tt override
Terry Carroll wrote:
> I have a pretty basic point of confusion that I'm hoping I can have
> explained to me. I have a class in which I want to override a method, and
> have my method defined externally to the class definition invoked instead.
> But when I do so, my external method is invoked wit
On Fri, 13 May 2011, Terry Carroll wrote:
For my specific case, I'm going to go with a Plan B of using callbacks; and
provide default unbound callbacks present in the module, but not defined in
the class itself.
Here's a callback-with-default approach, which works:
### Thing.py
On Fri, 13 May 2011, David Knupp wrote:
I think the problem is this bit about overriding an object's internal
method with one that is defined externally.
Yes, that describes the phenomenon.
My gut feeilng is that you'd
now have to explicitly pass the object (i.e., self) as well as the
strin
I think the problem is this bit about overriding an object's internal
method with one that is defined externally. My gut feeilng is that you'd
now have to explicitly pass the object (i.e., self) as well as the string,
i.e.:
B.addstuff(B, "WXYZ")
...which seems clunky.
I'm not familiar with t
On Fri, 13 May 2011, Terry Carroll wrote:
What I *expect* is to see ['abcdefg'] printed. What I get is:
Sorry, mixed multiple examples; What I had expected was ['wxyz']. Still
the same question though.
BTW, I forgot to mention: Python 2.7.1, under Windows. (Still not used to
the Python
I have a pretty basic point of confusion that I'm hoping I can have
explained to me. I have a class in which I want to override a method, and
have my method defined externally to the class definition invoked instead.
But when I do so, my external method is invoked with a different argument
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