Greetings all,
I hope someone can help me.
I have two modules, both define the same set of classes (with differing
implementations) and a number of utility functions that use those classes.
The utility functions are identical (the differences I need are abstracted
in the classes), so they are cut'n'pasted into both files.
A simplified concrete example (not what I'm doing, but it illustrates the
point):
-- C.py --
|class Comment:
| def __init__(self, value):
| self.value = value
|
| def __str__(self):
| return "/* " + self.value + " */"
|
|# utility functions
|import time
|def stamp():
| return Comment(time.asctime())
-- P.py --
|class Comment:
| def __init__(self, value):
| self.value = value
|
| def __str__(self):
| return "# " + self.value + "\n"
|
|# utility functions
|import time
|def stamp():
| return Comment(time.asctime())
How can I refactor these modules to avoid the code duplication?
I tried:
|class Comment
| ...
|from utils import *
where utils.py contains the functions, but when I try to use C.stamp(), I
get:
>>> import C as lang
>>> lang.stamp()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "utils.py", line 3, in stamp
return Comment(time.asctime())
NameError: global name 'Comment' is not defined
Any suggestions how I could (for instance) emulate a #include "utils.py" or
any other technique to eliminate the dreaded cut'n'paste?
Thanks.
Nigel
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