event handler advice

[Robert Vollmert]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 03:49:02PM -0700, Pete Shinners wrote:
> my guess is i need some dictionary that defines the
> messages and their routine name (no shortcut way to do
> this unless python had #define like macros :])
> 
> messages = {msg.INIT:"INIT", msg.PLAY:"PLAY", ...etc}

You could try to generate this dictionary automatically. Something
like

messages = {}
for name in dir(msg):
    val = getattr(msg, name)       
    if type(val) == type(0):
        messages[val] = name

maybe with some additional testing of the format of name, so you don't
by accident define a signal to call __doc__ or the like.

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Robert Vollmert                                      rvollmert at gmx.net