Creating new types and invoking super

[Guilherme Polo]

2008/1/23, Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel at googlemail.com>:
> On Jan 23, 8:55 pm, "Guilherme Polo" <ggp... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> Hi
> [...]
> > First I tried this:
> >
> > def init(func):
> >     def _init(inst):
> >         super(inst.__class__, inst).__init__()
> >         func(inst)
> >
> >     return _init
> >
> > class A(object):
> >     @init
> >     def __init__(self): pass
>
> This kind of approach can't work, you need to call super(A, obj).
> super(type(obj), obj) is pointless, it defeats the whole purpose of
> the mro!
>

Yeh, as shown in the next examples in the previous email. Using a
decorator for that doesn't sound useful at all, was just trying
something different ;) I will stick to the no-decorator option.

> The only way I can think of would be to create a metaclass, but I
> don't think it's worth it.  super(A, obj).__init__() isn't that bad!
>

Metaclass doesn't apply here because metaclass is related to
class-construction. This is related to instance initialization, and
I'm creating the types as the user asks.

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> Arnaud
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