Returning same type as self for arithmetic in subclasses
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Sat Jan 8 14:02:23 EST 2005
Tim Peters wrote:
> [Max M]
>
>>"""
>>I subclass datetime and timedelta
>>
[...]
>
> Generally speaking, no. But I'm sure someone will torture you with a
> framework that purports to make it easy <wink>.
Clearly the easy way is to have the type declaration introspect on the
definitions of datetime and timedelta and then auto-create methods
wrapping the base types' methods in a "myxxx" conversion.
left-as-an-exercise-for-the-reader-ly y'rs - steve
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