save class

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:11:22 -0300, nik <nikbaer at gmail.com> escribió:

> On Jun 13, 6:48 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar>
> wrote:
>> En Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:20:16 -0300, nik <nikb... at gmail.com> escribió:
>>
>> > I would like to create a class and then save it for re-use later. I
>> > have tried to usepickle, but am not sure if that is right. I am
>> > sorry, but I am new to python.
>>
>> Do you want to save the *source*code* of your class, or do you want to
>> save created *instances* -objects- of your classes to retrieve them  
>> later (like a database)?

> It would seem that I want to actually save the source code for the
> class. I know that I could of course open up an editor and just make
> it, but my ideal would be to have the base class, Map, be able to make
> the sub-classes. I don't want the class definition. What I want is an
> actual class that I could later import and use somewhere else. I am
> planning to have each one of these map objects contain a different
> dictionary and then be able to import the map into the application,
> but have certain methods defined in the Map super-class to draw data
> out of the specific map's specific dictionary. I hope that makes
> sense.
>
> Something like,
> class Map:
>      dict = {}
>      def DoSomething(self):
>          pass
>
>      def MakeNewMapSubClass(self, newclassname):
>          """ make a new file, newclassname.py that contains a new
> class
>              newclassname(Map) that inherits from base-class Map.

And are you sure you actually need different subclasses? Will you  
construct them several instances of each subclass? From the above  
description I feel you want just different Map *instances*, each with its  
own dict, not different *subclasses*.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina