self

[holger krekel]

Vojin Jovanovic wrote:
> > Why such a
> > harsh reaction without bothering to correct the obvious 'typo'?
> 
> No, it is not the 'typo'.  I corrected that immediately.

ok. sorry for wrong accusations...

> However,  all that aside, the problems is that your code just din't work
> after I corrected those 2 'typos'.  Take a look yourself ....
> 
> Python 2.1.2 (#31, Jan 15 2002, 17:28:11) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32

hmmm. it seems to be a problem with the python version: 'type(value)!=str' 
comparison doesn't seem to work with python2.1 (works with 2.2).
So here goes my python2.1/2.2 version:

Python 2.1.3 (#1, Apr 20 2002, 10:14:34)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
Welcome to Lazy Python.  Type "help LazyPython" for help.
>>> class Evaluator:
      def __init__(self, eqs={}):
          self.__dict__['equations']=eqs
      def __getattr__(self, name):
          value = self.equations[name]
          if type(value)!=type(''):
              return value
          scope={}
          while 1:
              try:
                  return eval(value, scope)
              except NameError, n:
                  var=str(n).split("'")[1]
                  scope[var]=getattr(self, var)
      def __setattr__(self, name, value):
          self.equations[name]=value

>>> class Berta:
       a=5

>>> e=Evaluator({'a':3})
>>> e.berta=Berta()
>>> e.g='berta.a*a'
>>> e.g
15
>>>

now i hope we are getting close to discussing the idea, finally :-)

regards,

    holger