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__new__ woes with list

macaronikazoo
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#1: Nov 21 '08
i'm having a hell of a time getting this to work. basically I want to
be able to instantiate an object using either a list, or a string, but
the class inherits from list.

if the class is instantiated with a string, then run a method over it
to tokenize it in a meaningful way.

so how come this doesn't work??? if I do this:

a=TMP( 'some string' )

it does nothing more than list('some string') and seems to be ignoring
the custom __new__ method.



def convertDataToList( data ): return [1,2,3]
class TMP(list):
def __new__( cls, data ):
if isinstance(data, basestring):
new = convertDataToList( data )
return list.__new__( cls, new )

if isinstance(data, list):
return list.__new__( cls, data )

Arnaud Delobelle
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#2: Nov 21 '08

re: __new__ woes with list


macaronikazoo <macaronikazoo@gmail.comwrites:
Quote:
i'm having a hell of a time getting this to work. basically I want to
be able to instantiate an object using either a list, or a string, but
the class inherits from list.
>
if the class is instantiated with a string, then run a method over it
to tokenize it in a meaningful way.
>
so how come this doesn't work??? if I do this:
>
a=TMP( 'some string' )
>
it does nothing more than list('some string') and seems to be ignoring
the custom __new__ method.
>
>
>
def convertDataToList( data ): return [1,2,3]
class TMP(list):
def __new__( cls, data ):
if isinstance(data, basestring):
new = convertDataToList( data )
return list.__new__( cls, new )
>
if isinstance(data, list):
return list.__new__( cls, data )
A list is mutable, its initialisation is done in __init__() not
__new__(). There was a recent post about this (in the last couple of
weeks).

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Arnaud
macaronikazoo
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#3: Nov 21 '08

re: __new__ woes with list




ok thansk - i will search again. i did try searching but didn't find
anything relevant...
Arnaud Delobelle
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#4: Nov 21 '08

re: __new__ woes with list


macaronikazoo <macaronikazoo@gmail.comwrites:
Quote:
ok thansk - i will search again. i did try searching but didn't find
anything relevant...
Here's a link to the thread on google groups:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....ff4eabc6182858

Unfortunately two threads seem to be intertwined: scroll down to when
the thread is renamed "python bug when subclassing list?".

HTH

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Arnaud
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