Another try at Python's selfishness

[Paul McGuire]

<n.estner at gmx.de> wrote in message
news:1138918102.863033.298700 at o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Having read previous discussions on python-dev I think I'm not the only
> Python programmer who doesn't particularly like python's "self"
> parameter:
>

How about this decorator-based approach (still need to pick *some* name for
self, I picked "__").

-- Paul



def memberFunction(f):
    def func(self,*args,**kwargs):
        globals()["__"] = self
        return f(*args,**kwargs)
    func.__name__ = f.__name__
    func.__doc__ = f.__doc__
    func.__dict__.update(f.__dict__)
    return func


class Test:
    @memberFunction
    def __init__(x,y):
        __.x = x
        __.y = y

    @memberFunction
    def mult():
        "Multiply the two member vars"
        return __.x * __.y


t = Test(5,4)
print t.mult()
print dir(t)
print t.mult.__doc__