Horrible abuse of __init_subclass__, or elegant hack?

[David L Neil]

Officially April-Fools Day is over (here), but...


On 01/04/2021 19.25, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 3:36 PM dn via Python-list
> <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 01/04/2021 13.54, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>> Real and imaginary are the same thing, just rotated a quarter turn....
>>
>> In which dimension(s)?
> 
> Cartesian.

Isn't this water you get out of the ground and then deliver using an
horse-pulled vehicle?


>>>> Without looking into the details/context: surely there's a more
>>>> straightforward approach?
>>>
>>> Perhaps, but there are potentially a LOT of recipes, and I needed to
>>> be able to cleanly edit those, even if the code at the top was a mess.
>>> (The goal here is to map out production patterns in the game
>>> "Satisfactory", for the curious. It's easy to add other things, like
>>> computer manufacturing or bauxite processing, simply by adding more
>>> recipes.)
>>>
>>> My original plan was basically pairwise tuple summing (deriving a set
>>> of "oil in, water in, rubber out, fuel out" for each set of recipes,
>>> where some might be zero), but it turned out that that wasn't flexible
>>> enough, and it really needed more options than that.
>>
>> Which was where my mind was going*. Why not a dict of inputs, processes,
>> and outputs**? Each dict having variable length, from None, and
>> key:values assigned at declaration/init. In the case of process, the
>> contained objects could be Python-functions. With "compact
>> representation" (3.6+) the functions could also be relied upon to
>> represent a 'production line' or pipeline of functions.
> 
> Perhaps, but the key here is the input method. It wouldn't look nearly as clean.

Not sure about that. For example, is it immediately-obvious which of
"Crude", "Residue", and "Plastic" are inputs; and which outputs?


>>> I already have certificates from Rutledge's Asylum and MaayaInsane's
>>> (unnamed) asylum, so that seems pretty likely.
>>
>> Noted you on the list of lauded alumni at the latter.
> 
> Hmm, where do you see that list? I'm curious.

Appeared to be some sort of 'leader board' for the game. Recognised your
handle there. Think it was https://www.twitch.tv/maayainsane. Perhaps I
was looking at the same time as you logged-in? Daren't disappear down
that rabbit-hole again...


>> When you left the former, did they allow you to keep the t-shirt, or did
>> you have to buy your own memorabilia?
>> (https://mysterious.americanmcgee.com/products/rutledge-asylum-mug)
> 
> I beg your pardon? What is this "left"? I'm still there! Actually I
> pay my membership on a monthly basis, and in return, my walls are
> lavishly decorated in Alice art.

Whereas us lateral-thinkers don't like the feeling of being fenced-in.


>> The latter's treatment list sounds remarkably like .mil training. I know
>> of plenty with that t-shirt - but can't think of a one sporting a mug...
>> Should you have one, kindly bring it (with appropriate contents) come
>> ANZAC Day at the end of this month...
> 
> https://streamlabs.com/maayainsane/merch/1053635
> This is what I'd bring. They're the standard mugs that I offer to
> guests. Well, I would if ever I had guests, but hermitism is a
> thing...

Is that the same as (anti-) club-ism
(cue Groucho:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6517787-i-wouldn-t-want-to-belong-to-a-club-that-would)

After suffering the RSA's ?quaint tradition of rum-in-milk (that BEFORE
Dawn Parade, and thereafter marching on a less-than flat surface) I have
learned to guard against the pre-dawn cold by heading for the Hot
Chocolate counter - can't say the mugs look like that though.


>> Magic, you ask? Well, maybe more "sinister". We did manage to find a
>> loose floor-board, but a sad life-lesson was learned, when certain ones
>> (un-named*) took it upon themselves to eat all of the contraband
>> secreted there.
> 
> Uh oh. How old was the contraband?

Was between 'tuck days' (when we were allowed to acquire such goodies -
once?twice per week). The theory being that we would all contribute, in
anticipation of some later "midnight feast") - such gyre and gimble-ing
being more Jabberwock than Alice!
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Regards =dn