How to define "exec" method on a class object? Get syntax error due to built in command

[Ethan Furman]

On 03/26/2013 11:13 AM, Kyle wrote:
> On Monday, March 25, 2013 4:28:34 PM UTC-4, Kyle wrote:
>> I am using swig to generate our CLI for TCL and Python. In this CLI, we have a subcommand "exec" that is failing to compile in the python case. There seems to be some built-in python command "exec" which is giving a syntax error in the .py file generated by swig when I try to import it:
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>>     def exec(*args): return _wbt_daemon.dm_cli_exec(*args)
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>>             ^
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>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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>> I don't really want to change the CLI commands or make them different between languages. Is there any way to define a method called "exec" on a class? It would be executed as obj.exec() so I don't see why it should conflict with the built in "exec" command.
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>> class dm_cli(_object):
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>>      __swig_setmethods__ = {}
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>>      __setattr__ = lambda self, name, value: _swig_setattr(self, dm_cli, name, value)
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>>      __swig_getmethods__ = {}
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>>      __getattr__ = lambda self, name: _swig_getattr(self, dm_cli, name)
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>>      def __init__(self): raise RuntimeError, "No constructor defined"
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>> ...
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>>      def exec(*args): return _wbt_daemon.dm_cli_exec(*args)
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>> ...
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>> }
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> Thanks for the suggestion. Looks like we currently use 2.3.4.
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> This still wouldn't solve the problem because now the user would need to call something like  getattr(wbt, "exec")(<args>) instead of wbt.exec(<args>) like all the other commands.
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> I think the easiest thing for me to do would be to just change the command name from exec to something else.

Yeah, that's unfortunate.

I suggest 'execute'.  :)

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~Ethan~