Class design question

[Adam Lanier]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:47 +0000, George Sakkis wrote:
> >
> > I would use variable argument list for this; it's also consistent
with
> > your example Foo( 'baz', Bar( 'something else' )), otherwise you
need
> > to call it as Foo([ 'baz', Bar( 'something else' ) ])

Good point, this is what was tripping me up...

> >
> > # always inherit from object unless you have a good reason not to
> > class Foo(object):
> >
> >     # XXX this is a class instance, shared by all Foo instances;
> >     # XXX probably not what you intended
> >     params = [ ]
> >
> >     def __init__(self, *args):
> >         # uncomment the following line for instance-specific params
> >         # self.params = []
> >         for arg in args:
> >             if not isinstance(arg, Bar):
> >                # let the Bar constructor to do typechecking or
whatnot

This is also tangentially what I was asking, Should type-checking be
done in the caller or the callee (so to speak).  I guess good OOP
practice would be to push it down the call stack.

> >                 arg = Bar(arg)
> >             self.params.add(arg)
> >
> 
> Or even better (Python 2.5):
> 
> class Foo(object):
>     def __init__(self, *args):
>         self.params = [arg if isinstance(arg, Bar) else Bar(arg) for
> arg in args]
> 

Interesting, I'm not familiar with this idiom...