[IronPython] Multiple-inheritance with builtin types

Dino Viehland dinov at exchange.microsoft.com
Thu Apr 20 17:13:05 CEST 2006


Thanks for the report.  This is another issue we've already fixed for beta 6 - inheriting from a mix of new-style classes as well as old-style classes.

This was part of a large cleanup around __metaclass__ defined at the module scope, support for __metaclass__ being a function, support for __mro__ on new-style classes, and some random other fixes for more CPython compatibility.  So you should be seeing this fix real soon now.


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-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-bounces at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Sanghyeon Seo
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 12:04 AM
To: Discussion of IronPython
Subject: [IronPython] Multiple-inheritance with builtin types

Example code:

class CompatMixin:
    def __getattr__(self, attr):
        if attr == 'string':
            return self
        else:
            raise AttributeError, attr

class CompatString(str, CompatMixin):
    pass

s = CompatString('abc')
print s
print s.string
s.error

The intent is to provide backward-compatibility with previous API, so
that using the string as s and s.string both work. Above code was
modelled after similar code in BeautifulSoup, a popular Python
library.

IronPython says:
NotImplementedError: CompatString: unsupported base type for new-style
class: IronPython.Runtime.ExtensibleString

Seo Sanghyeon
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