wrapping problem with old-style class

Gerard Flanagan grflanagan at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Dec 19 05:27:28 EST 2006


manstey wrote:

> The ipo class has three basic methods, namely, get, set, and
> run_obj_method (which takes the Cache class method, as its first
> argument, and the list of its arguments as the second argument)
>
> e.g.
> >>> CacheClass=ipo()
> >>> CacheClass.set('Name','John')
> >>> valName = CacheClass.get('Name')
> >>> print valName
> 'John'
>
> I want to add functionality to ipo, so I have wrapped a new style class
> (MyWrapper class, very basic) around it.
>
> PythonCacheClass=MyWrapper(CacheClass)
>
> Now, I want to make PythonCacheClass more pythonic, so I have a
> dictionary of all the properties and values of each ipo. Eg
>
> dicCacheProperties = {'Name':'John', 'Address':'The Strand'} etc
> for key, val in dicCacheProperties.iteritems():
>    setattr(PythonCacheClass, key, val)
>
> So now I have:
> >>>print PythonCacheClass.Name
> 'John'
>
> My problem is this: how do I link the set and get methods of the ipo
> class with the set and get methods in the wrapper class
> PythonCacheClass?
>
> So, I would like the following code:
> >>> PythonCacheClass.Name='Alexander'
> to execute automatically
> CacheClass.set('Name','Alexander')    etc
>

Maybe try:

class WrapperClass(BaseClass, object):

	get = object.__getattribute__
	set = object.__setattr_

Gerard




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