On Apr 16, 1:43 pm, jka... at gmail.com wrote:
> so I’m trying to create a class that inherits from str, but I want to
> run some code on the value on object init. this is what I have:
>
> class Path(str):
> def __init__( self, path ):
> clean = str(path).replace('\\','/')
> while clean.find('//') != -1:
> clean = clean.replace('//','/')
>
> print 'cleaned on init:\t',clean
> self = clean
>
> so clearly the clean variable is what I want value of the string to
> be, but that’s decidedly not the case. so running this:
>
> a=Path('path///with\\nasty/////crap_in_it/')
> print a
>
> gives me this:
>
> cleaned on init: path/with/nasty/crap_in_it/
> path///with\nasty/////crap_in_it/
>
> what gives? what am I doing wrong, and can I do what I’m trying to
> here?
> thanks.
Regardless of the problem you have initializing the class, why do you
need to inherit from str? Actually, why do you even need a class?
Unless you're dealing something more complex that you didn't mention
here, that should be just a simple function.