dynamic type returning NameError:

[Tim O'Callaghan]

On Sunday, July 28, 2013 10:51:57 PM UTC-4, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 7/28/2013 9:38 PM, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > I hope that this hasn't been asked for the millionth time, so my apologies if it has.
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> > I have a base class (BaseClass - we'll call it for this example) with an http call that i would like to inherit into a dynamic class at runtime. We'll call that method in BaseClass;  'request'.
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> > I have a dictionary(json) of key (class name): value(method) that I would like to create inheriting this 'request' method from the BaseClass. So the derived class would look something like this
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> > definition in json:
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> > {"Whatever": [{"method1": "Some Default", "async": True},{"method2": "Some Other Default", "async": True}]}
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> > Ideally I'd like the class def to look something like this if i were to type it out by hand
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> > [excuse the indents]
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> > class Whatever(BaseClass):
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> >      def method1(self):
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> >          stupid_data = super(Whatever, self).request("method1")
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> >          return stupid_data
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> >       def method2(self):
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> >          stupid_data = super(Whatever, self).request("method1")
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> >          return stupid_data
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> > Now, I've been trying to do this using the python cli, with out success.
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> > So, attempting this at runtime I get a plethora of wonderful errors that I suspect has broken my brain.
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> > Here is what i've tried:
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> > # trying with just an empty object of type BaseClass
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> > obj = type("Object", (BaseClass,), {})
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> > whatever = type("WhatEver", (obj,), {"method1": super(WhatEver, self).request("method1")})
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> 'method1' has to be mapped to a function object.

But isn't that what calling super is doing? Calling the function object of the parent class BaseClass? 

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> > but when i try this I get 'NameError: name 'self' is not defined'
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> > defining these classes manually works...
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> > I hope that this was clear enough, apologies if it wasn't. It's late(ish), I'm tired and borderline frustrated :) But enough about me...
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> > Thanks in advance.
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> Terry Jan Reedy