Bind an instance of a base to a subclass - can this be done?

[Lou Pecora]

In article <4djshnF1asdovU1 at uni-berlin.de>,
 "Diez B. Roggisch" <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote:

> Lou Pecora schrieb:
[cut]
> > 
> > Then do something like (I know this isn't right, I'm just trying to 
> > convey the idea of what I would like)
> > 
> > mf=myfile()
> > 
> > mf=open("Afile","r")  
> > Possible in some way?  Thanks in advance for any clues.
> 
> Nope, not in that way. But you might consider writing a proxy/wrapper 
> for an object. That looks like this (rouch sketch from head):
> 
> class FileWrapper(object):
>     def __init__(self, f):
>        self._f = f
> 
>     def __getattr__(self, name):
>        return getattr(self._f, name)
> 
>     def myreadline(self):
>        ....
> 
> Then you do
> 
> f = FileWrapper(open(name, mode))
> 
> Diez

Interesting.  I have to think about this to understand if it is a 
solution I can use.  But, thank you for a very different angle on this.

-- Lou Pecora  (my views are my own) REMOVE THIS to email me.