[Tutor] Dynamic inheritance?

[Python]

On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 16:45 +0100, Jan Eden wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to dynamically determine the value of Super at runtime? Background: Depending on certain object attributes which are set during the object initialization, I need to use a different set of templates for the respective object.
> 
If you use new style classes, then there is a super function that can be
used to automatically resolve a superclass reference.  You can force new
style classes by:

	inherit from object		easy to see, but repetitive
	__metaclass__ = type		put before the class statements

super(Myclass,self).__init__(...)
	will search through the inheritance tree and (in this case) invoke
__init__.


Use __bases__ to run up the inheritance yourself.

>>> class A:
...     pass
...
>>> class B(A):
...     pass
...
>>> b.__class__.__bases__
(<class __main__.A at 0xb7e9311c>,)

>>> B.__bases__
(<class __main__.A at 0xb7e9311c>,)

The "magic" class attributes don't get listed by the dir command so you
need to search the documentation to find this.

http://docs.python.org/lib/specialattrs.html

>>> dir(B)
['__doc__', '__module__']
>>> b = B()
>>> dir(b)
['__doc__', '__module__']


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Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp