On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Serdar Tumgoren<zstumgo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Say that I've created a series of Campaign Committee objects from an > initial data set. > > class Committee(object): > def __init__(self, data): > self.id = data[0] > self.name = data[1] > self.candidate = data[2] > self.candidateID = data[3] > > In the above example, I know for certain that the returned data will > always have a committee ID. But a number of other data such as the > name, candidate, and candidateID are often missing or incorrect. So > after the initialiization of an object, I'm using "self.id" in a > series of subsequent database queries to correct and/or fill in this > data. > > So my question, in light of Mac's suggestion, is this a case where I > should add a subclass containing so-called DataIntegrity checks?
I would just create an ordinary fix() method of Committee, e.g. def fix(self): self.fix_name() self.fix_candidate() self.fix_candidateID() etc. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
