Python Macros

[Arich Chanachai]

Jeff Shannon wrote:

> Arich Chanachai wrote:
>
>> <SNIP>
>
>
>>> You mean some refinement of this sort of thing:
>>>
>>>    class X(object):
>>>           a = "lives in X"
>>>           def __getattr__(self, name):
>>>            return getattr(U,name)
>>>       class U(object):
>>>           b = "lives in Y"
>>>       x = X()
>>>    print x.a
>>>    print x.b
>>>
>>> ?
>>>  
>>
>>
>> Sure, but what if I dynamically (at runtime) extend X to include 
>> variable b.  Will it then print X.b or still U.b?
>
>
>
> In this case, as I understand it, adding an attribute b to either x 
> (the instance) or X (the class) will cause x.b to resolve to the new 
> attribute, and *not* to U.b -- attributes are dynamically looked up 
> each time they are used, and __getattr__() is called only when the 
> standard lookup methods (instance, class, superclass, ...) fail.
> Jeff Shannon
> Technician/Programmer
> Credit International
>
Cool.  This seems then to have the same functionality as ObjC messages.  
I am beginning to like Python more and more.