object knows which object called it?

[George Sakkis]

On Apr 6, 10:53 am, Reckoner <recko... at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> I have the following problem: I have two objects, say, A and B, which
> are both legitimate stand-alone objects with lives of their own.
>
> A contains B as a property, so I often do
>
> A.B.foo()
>
> the problem is that some functions inside of B actually need A
> (remember I said they were both standalone objects), so I have to
> often do:
>
> A.B.foo_func(A)
>
> Which is kind of awkward.
>
> Is there some way that B.foo_func() could somehow know that it was
> called as a property of A in this way?
>
> Note that I'm looking for the calling object and NOT the calling
> function.

Read up on descriptors [1], it seems that's what you're looking for.

HTH,
George

[1] http://users.rcn.com/python/download/Descriptor.htm