total idiot question: +=, .=, etc...
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at compaq.com
Sun Jun 27 18:48:28 EDT 1999
Michael Hudson wrote:
>
> class Derived(base.Base):
> def __init__(self,x,y,z,**kw):
> apply(base.Base.__init__,(self,x,y),kw)
> print z
>
> which I think is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen in Python
> that I couldn't think of a prettier way round. Ideas, anyone?
Yes! With the calling syntax extension that I
have proposed before, that would be written
Base.__init__(self, x, y, **kw)
Still requires the self argument, but I think
you'll agree it's a lot better than having to
use apply!
I'd also like a way of getting rid of the self
argument in that situation as well, but this seems
to be quite a difficult problem to solve within
Python's existing execution model. I haven't
thought of a good solution yet.
Greg
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