self-registering objects?

[Ionel Simionescu]

Hi,

I would like objects of a certain class to be able of registering themselves
in a global dictionary, __register__, possibly upon __init__.

__register__ should contain associatins such as:

{ 'ID': <__main__.certain_class instance at ####> }

Unfortunately, the naive:

def __init__(self, etc.):
    global __register__
    self.ID = 'instance1'
    __register__[self.ID] = self

Does NOT work.

The object that I find in the __register__ under the given ID is apparently
just the bare bones of the class and gets none of the changes incured to the
instance after registration.

It's is not a problem if I register the object "from outside",
but I would like to understand what's going on...


ionel