How to pass class instance to a method?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 04:11:29 -0800, ALeX inSide wrote:

> How to "statically type" an instance of class that I pass to a method of
> other instance?

Please explain what you mean by this.

What do you think "statically type" means?


> I suppose there shall be some kind of method decorator to treat an
> argument as an instance of class?


Python does not allow you to lie about the type of an argument. All 
objects are strongly typed. If an object is a Spam instance, it is a Spam 
instance, you can't pretend that it is a Cheese instance.[1]



> Generally it is needed so IDE (PyCharm) can auto-complete instance's
> methods and properties.
> 
> Pseudo-python-code example:
> 
> i = MyClass()
> 
> xxx(i, 1, 2);
> 
> ...
> def xxx(self, MyClass myclass, number, foobar):
>    myclass.classsmethod() #myclass - is an instance of known class


I do not understand what you are saying here. Please try to explain more 
carefully.






[1] You cannot lie about the type of an instance, but sometimes you can 
actually change its type. Use this feature with care, since it rarely is 
useful.



-- 
Steven