Inheritance, __getattr__...?

[Gerrit Holl]

Hello,

I currently have a subclass of UserDict with the following methods:

...
    def __setitem__(self, key, value):
        UserDict.__setitem__(self, key, value)
        if not self.buffered:
            self.flush()

    def __delitem__(self, key):
        UserDict.__delitem__(self, key)
        if not self.buffered:
            self.flush()

    def clear(self):
        UserDict.clear(self)
        if not self.buffered:
            self.flush()

...

As you can see, I'm looking for a construct:
For every method, first do the method of base class UserDict and next
do <THIS> code.

I think I'm close with this code:
class MyClass(UserDict.UserDict):
    def method(*args, **kw):
        apply(UserDict.??????, args, kw)
        if not self.buffered:
            self.flush()

    __setitem__ = __getitem__ = __delitem = __del__ = \
    keys = values = has_key = get = update = method # for all methods...

But I don't know what to put in apply(...)

Should I just be content with the first code, which is IMHO ugly?

regards,
Gerrit.

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