Help creating new module which inherits existing class from another module.

[biolord9 at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 3:34:51 PM UTC-5, Jonno wrote:
> I'm not sure if this list is a suitable place to ask for this kind of help so if it's not please just suggest another forum which might be more suitable.
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> I'm looking for help/suggestions how to architect a module (perhaps just a class).
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> There is an existing module I want to use which has a class we'll call Existing Class.
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> I want to create a python module which allows me to create new_objects with the following properties:
> The new_objects have all the attributes of the Existing_Class (simply create a class that inherits from Existing_Class)
> I then want to create a nested structure under the new_objects something like:
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> new_object.foo
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> new_object.foo.bar
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> new_object.foo.bar.baz
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> Where foo, bar, baz have the following properties:
> All have docstrings
> All are available for tab completion tools upon new_object creation.
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> Some of which will have new methods which act in the following way:
> 
> new_object.foo.bar()
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> calls
> new_object.existing_method("foo.bar", *args)
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> I believe I'll need to use metaclasses and have an idea that types.MethodType will help but I keep getting stuck. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

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