Keyword passing to superclass written in C

Sven Erik Knop sknop at gmx.net
Tue Nov 27 11:12:46 EST 2007


Duh

of course. Not sure what I had done in Python/Python.

Now it works. Thanks a lot.

Sven Erik

Chris Mellon wrote:
> On Nov 27, 2007 6:47 AM, Sven Erik Knop <sknop at perforce.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I am getting slightly frustrated and wonder if you can help me.
>>
>> Consider a Python class Foo implemented in C++. I have declared an
>> initialization method like this
>>
>> static int
>> Foo_init(P4Adapter *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
>> {
>>
>> }
>>
>> and I am subclassing Foo in Python, which works fine in principle,
>> except for passing keywords.
>>
>> Here is the subclass:
>>
>> class Bar(Foo):
>>   def __init__(self, *args, **kwlist):
>>      Foo.__init__(self, args, kwlist)
>>
>>     
>
> This passes the args tuple and the kw dict as 2 regular arguments. You
> need to expand them in the second call if you want them to be passed
> as args and kwargs -
> Foo.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
>   



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