My fight with classes :)

[TheSaint]

On 04:51, giovedì 12 giugno 2008 Terry Reedy wrote:

First of all a big thank you, all.

> def makeappender():
> data = ['','']
> def appender(val):
> <code that mutates data>
> return appender

I'll give it a try. I just doubting if the data will be shared outside the
function.
Actually, my practice goes to send all variables to the functions and
expecting a returned value. Usually I'm not relying on that module's
variables are read inside a function. Probably I got wrong learning or
experiences.

> For multiple functions, use classes.

That's what I'm leaning to :)
Then I re-elaborated the class according your points and now it's what I
wanted to be. :)
(last time I forgot to past the first line)
Here it comes:

class StrJoin:
    """ Join a pair of strings according to the leading first letter A or D,
    it returns a list of 2 elements"""

    def __init__(self):
        self.valueA= ''
        self.valueD= ''

    def append(self, value):
        if not isinstance(value, str):
            raise TypeError, 'Wrong type concatenation'
        if value.lower().startswith('a'):
            self.valueA += value
        if value.lower().startswith('d'):
            self.valueD += value
        return [self.valueA ,self.valueD]

    def __getitem__(self,idx):
        if idx > 1 : return self
        if idx == 0 : return self.valueA
        if idx == 1 : return self.valueD

    __call__= append
    
    def __repr__(self):
        return '['+ self.valueA+ ','+ self.valueD+ ']'

And the shell >>:

>>> from utilities import StrJoin as zx
>>> k =  zx()
>>> k
[,]
>>> k('add')
['add', '']
>>> k[2]
[add,]
>>> k[1]
''
>>> k[0]
'add'
>>> k('dad')
['add', 'dad']
>>> k('sad')
['add', 'dad']
>>> k('Alfa')
['addAlfa', 'dad']
>>> k('Dude')
['addAlfa', 'dadDude']
>>> k('Omega')
['addAlfa', 'dadDude']
>>> k('Dome')
['addAlfa', 'dadDudeDome']
>>> k.append[k]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'instancemethod' object is unsubscriptable
>>> k(89)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "utilities.py", line 33, in append
    raise TypeError, 'Wrong type concatenation'
TypeError: Wrong type concatenation
>>>

Mostly I'll use the call option. I also like to pass it into a function in
order to modularize the loop where it gets started.

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