Preventing class methods from being defined

[David Hirschfield]

I should have explicitly mentioned that I didn't want this particular 
solution, for a number of silly reasons.
Is there another way to make this work, without needing to place an 
explicit "if allowed" around each method definition?

Thanks again,
-David

Dan Sommers wrote:

>On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:41:02 -0800,
>David Hirschfield <davidh at ilm.com> wrote:
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>>I want a class that, when instantiated, only defines certain methods
>>if a global indicates it is okay to have those methods. So I want
>>something like:
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>>global allow
>>allow = ["foo","bar"]
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>>class A:
>>    def foo():
>>        ...
>>    
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>>    def bar():
>>        ...
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>>    def baz():
>>        ...
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>>any instance of A will only have a.foo() and a.bar() but no a.baz()
>>because it wasn't in the allow list.
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>>I hope that makes sense.
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>I think so, at least in the "I can implement that idea" sense, although
>not the "why would you need such a strange animal" sense.  Since "class"
>is an executable statement in Python, this ought to do it:
>
>    allow = ["foo", "bar"]
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>    class A:
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>      if "foo" in allow:
>        def foo( ):
>          ...
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>      if "bar" in allow:
>        def bar( ):
>          ...
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>>Don't ask why I would need such a strange animal ...
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>Consider yourself not asked.
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>HTH,
>Dan
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