Setting a read-only attribute

[Steve Holden]

tleeuwenburg at gmail.com wrote:
> On Aug 31, 6:14 pm, Alexandre Badez <alexandre.ba... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Aug 30, 11:35 pm, "tleeuwenb... at gmail.com" <tleeuwenb... at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have an object and wish to set an attribute on it which,
>>> unfortunately for me, is read-only.
>>> How can I go about this?
>>> Cheers.
>>> -T
>> Could you show the object you want to set his attribute?
>> Until that, it's difficult to answer to you.
>>
>> PS: If the attribut is on read only, their must a good reason for
>> that ;)
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for all the responses. What I'm trying to do is kludge around
> something. sys.settrace takes a method whose arguments are (frame,
> event, arg). I want to have a tracer class which can be instantiated
> and listen in on these trace calls.
> 
> Another way to go about it *might* be to have a module-level list of
> registered Tracer objects which a module-level trace method informs of
> events. It would probably be easier. In fact, I'll go do that.
> 
> *That said*, I still think it makes sense to be able to have objects
> register with sys.settrace.
> 
> So what I did then was declare a static method with the same pattern
> expected by sys.settrace. I then want to use something like __dict__
> or __setattr__ to give that method a reference to the owning object.
> And this is what I'm trying to do -- declare a static method, then "un-
> static it" by adding a reference to the callable object...
> 
> Here's some code:
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> import sys
> 
> 
> class Tracer:
>     '''
>     Instantiate this in order to access program trace information.
> 
>     '''
> 
>     def _getcallback(self):
> 
>         @staticmethod
>         def callback(frame, event, arg):
>             print "tracing ...", tracerReference
>             #print "line ", frame.f_lineno, frame.f_locals
> 
>         return callback
> 
>     def startTrace(self):
>         callback = self._getcallback()
>         callback.__dict__['tracerReference'] = self
>         sys.settrace(callback)
> 
> 
> def foo(dict):
>     for i in range(2):
>         pass
> 
> if __name__ == "__main__":
>     t = Tracer()
>     t.startTrace()
>     foo({1 : 5})
> 
Surely the thing to do, if I understand you, is to declare callback as a 
standard method and then pass a reference to a bound method (the most 
obvious candidate being self.callback) to sys.settrace().

sholden at bigboy ~/Projects/Python
$ cat test05.py
import sys


class Tracer:
     '''
     Instantiate this in order to access program trace information.

     '''


     def callback(self, frame, event, arg):
         print "tracing ...", self
         print "line ", frame.f_lineno, frame.f_locals

     def startTrace(self):
         sys.settrace(self.callback)


def foo(dict):
     for i in range(2):
         pass

if __name__ == "__main__":
     t = Tracer()
     t.startTrace()
     foo({1 : 5})

sholden at bigboy ~/Projects/Python
$ python test05.py
tracing ... <__main__.Tracer instance at 0x7ff2514c>
line  19 {'dict': {1: 5}}

sholden at bigboy ~/Projects/Python
$

Does this do what you want?

regards
  Steve
-- 
Steve Holden        +1 571 484 6266   +1 800 494 3119
Holden Web LLC/Ltd           http://www.holdenweb.com
Skype: holdenweb      http://del.icio.us/steve.holden
--------------- Asciimercial ------------------
Get on the web: Blog, lens and tag the Internet
Many services currently offer free registration
----------- Thank You for Reading -------------