If a class Child inherits from Parent, how to implement Child.some_method if Parent.some_method() returns Parent instance ?

[Chris Rebert]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:45 PM, metal <metal29a at gmail.com> wrote:
> Consider the following:
<snip>
> class Parent:
>        def some_method(self):
>                return Parent(...)
> class Child:
>        pass
> ########################################
>
> Child().some_method() returns a Parent instance.
>
> We can rewrite Parent like this to avoid that
>
> ########################################
> class Parent:
>        def some_method(self):
>                return self.__class__(...)
> class Child:
>        def some_method(self):
>                ...
>                return Parent.some_method(self)
> ########################################
>
> But this style makes code full with ugly  self.__class__
>
> Any standard/pythonic way out there?

That pretty much is the standard way AFAIK. A few underscores aren't
all that bad in the grand scheme of things.

Cheers,
Chris
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