Automatic reloading, metaclasses, and pickle

[andrewfelch at gmail.com]

On Feb 27, 3:47 pm, "Ziga Seilnacht" <ziga.seilna... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Andrew Felch wrote:
> > Thanks for checking.  I think I narrowed the problem down to
> > inheritance.  I inherit from list or some other container first:
>
> > class PointList( list, AutoReloader ):
> >     def PrintHi1(self):
> >         print "Hi2"
>
> > class MyPrintingClass( AutoReloader ):
> >     def PrintHi2(self):
> >         print "Hi2v2"
>
> > Automatic reloading works for MyPrintingClass but not for PointList.
> > Any ideas?
>
> > -Andrew
>
> Ah yes, this is the problem of list.__new__ not calling the next
> class in MRO. Try to switch the bases, so that AutoReloader's
> __new__ method will be called first.
>
> Ziga

That did it!  Thanks so much!

This really seems to extend Python to be a much better rapid
prototyping langauge.  It certainly allows me to now use classes where
I avoided them like the plague before.  Perhaps I'll be able to make
programs > 1500 lines now!  :-)

-Andrew