something wrong with isinstance
Diez B. Roggisch
deets at nospam.web.de
Thu Feb 12 14:56:43 EST 2009
maksym.kaban at gmail.com schrieb:
> Hi there.
> now i'm a complete newbie for python, and maybe my problem is stupid
> but i cannot solve it myself
>
> i have an object of class GeoMap which contains lists with objects of
> GeoMapCell (i will not explain what they should do, hope its not
> important). Then i want to serialize these objects to json notation.
> So i imported json module and as shown in docs for it extended
> JSONEncoder class. Look at the code below
>
> ##main module
> from worldmap import GeoMap, GeoMapCell
>
> import testdata
> import json
>
> class GeoMapEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
> def default(self, obj):
> if isinstance(obj, GeoMap):
> return None
> return json.JSONEncoder.default(self, obj)
>
> def main():
> print(json.dumps(2 + 5j, cls=ComplexEncoder))
>
> geomap = testdata.createTestMap()
> print(json.dumps(geomap, cls=GeoMapEncoder))
> pass
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> main()
>
> ===========
>
> ##worldmap module
> class GeoMap:
> cells = []
> activerow = 0
> activecol = 0
>
> def addCell(self, acell):
> if len(self.cells) == 0:
> self.cells.append([])
> self.activerow = 0
> acell.col = self.activerow
> acell.row = self.activecol
> self.cells[self.activerow].append(acell)
> self.activecol += 1
>
> def addRow(self):
> self.cells.append([])
> self.activerow += 1;
> self.activecol = 0;
>
> class GeoMapCell:
> neighbours = (None, None, None, None, None, None, )
> col = 0
> row = 0
>
> The problem is in here.
>
> class GeoMapEncoder(json.JSONEncoder):
> def default(self, obj):
> if isinstance(obj, GeoMap): ## <======= isinstance doesnot
> work as i expected
> return None
> return json.JSONEncoder.default(self, obj)
>
> Though obj is object of GeoMap class, isinstance returns False. Where
> was i mistaken. If i shouldn't use isinstance, then what function
> would check class of object?
>
> Oh, maybe its important. I'm working on WinXP SP3, Python 3.0, IDE -
> PyScript
I think you have a common problem here that occurs when using a script
with more that non-trivial contents as main-script.
What happens is this: you have a
__main__.GeoMap, which is the one tested against in isinstance.
*And* you have a <mainmodule>.GeoMap (replace <mainmodule> with the
actual name) that is imported & used from the other module.
A simple testscript illustrates the issue:
### test.py ####
class Foo(object):
pass
if __name__ == "__main__":
import test
print Foo == test.Foo
Run it from inside the directory you saved it in.
To work around this issue, simply create a bootstrap-main-module that
has not much in it.
Diez
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