Fixed keys() mapping

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Thursday 11/1/2007 14:19, George Sakkis wrote:

>The implementation I came up with goes like this: each fkdict instance
>stores only the values as a list in self._values. The keys and the
>mapping of keys to indices are stored in a dynamically generated
>subclass of fkdict, so that self._keys and self._key2index are also
>accessible from the instance. The dynamically generated subclasses are
>cached so that the second time an fkdict with the same keys is created,
>the cached class is called.
>
>Since the keys are determined in fkdict.__init__(), this scheme
>requires changing self.__class__ to the dynamically generated subclass.
>As much as I appreciate Python's dynamic nature, I am not particularly
>comfortable with objects that change their class and the implications
>this may have in the future (e.g. how well does this play with
>inheritance). Is this a valid use case for type-changing behavior or is
>there a better, more "mainstream" OO design pattern for this ? I can
>post the relevant code if necessary.

I think a better place would be __new__ instead. This is where you 
can determine the right class to use and construct the new instance.


-- 
Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


	

	
		
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