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denis.spir at free.fr
Tue Feb 10 15:38:06 CET 2009
Le Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:42:50 +1100,
Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> a écrit :
> > Moreover --this is the reason why I first had to study that point
> > closer--, the present syntax requires the base type to be unique
> > *and* known at design time.
>
> I don't think so. Just write a class factory.
>
> >>> def factory(base):
> ... class MyThing(base):
> ... def method(self):
> ... return "self is a %s" % base.__name__
> ... return MyThing
> ...
> >>> x = factory(int)()
> >>> x.method()
> 'self is a int'
> >>> y = factory(str)()
> >>> y.method()
> 'self is a str'
I considered this approach already. It does not solve the problem at all. It's not the class's base type that is undefined at design time; it's the "base data"'s type. Each instance's base data may be of any type. In other words base==type(data) for each instance.
Researches on the topic have revealed nothing except for a thread on SWIG's site. They were confronted to precisely the same issue, and seemed to have no more clue on a possible workaroud.
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