different instances with different data descriptors with the same name

[grflanagan at gmail.com]

On Feb 18, 11:21 am, Fabrizio Pollastri <f.pollas... at inrim.it> wrote:
> Data descriptors are set as attributes of object types. So if one has many
> instances of the same class and wants each instance to have a different property
> (data descriptor) that can be accessed with a unique attribute name, it seems to
> me that there is no solution with data descriptors. There is any workaround to
> this? Thank in advance for any help.
>
> F. Pollastri

If you explain your intent you might get some good advice. Here's one
idea:

[code]

class Descriptor(object):
    val = 0

    def __init__(self, initval=0):
        self.val = initval

    def __get__(self, obj, objtype):
        return '%05d' % self.val

    def __set__(self, obj, val):
        self.val = val

def Factory(attrname, initval=0):

    class Obj(object):
        pass

    setattr(Obj, attrname, Descriptor(initval))

    return Obj

X = Factory('x')
Y = Factory('y', 1)

obj1 = X()

print obj1.x

obj2 = Y()

print obj2.y

obj2.y = 5

print obj2.y

print obj2.x

[/code]

Outputs:

00000
00001
00005
Traceback (most recent call last):
  ...
AttributeError: 'Obj' object has no attribute 'x'


Gerard