Stuck with metaclass

[Fernando Rodriguez]

Hi,

I have a class Preconditions that has a metaclass (MetaChecker), but I guess I
somehow screwed things up with the metaclass definition...

When I create an instance of Preconditions, I get the doc string instead! =:-O
If I remove the metaclass statemente, everythign works fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. O:-)

here's my code:

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import inspect

def _isNary(fn,n):
"""
Determines a function has the right 'arity'
"""

args = inspect.getargspec(fn)[0]
if len(args) == n:
return 1
else:
return None

class MetaChecker(type):
"""
Metaclas that checks if all 'public' methods' (those that
don't start with _ are unary functions
"""

def __new__(cls, clsname, bases, attribs):
for name, value in attribs.iteritems():
if name[0:1] != "_" and inspect.isfunction(value):
if not _isNary(value, 1):
try:
src = inspect.getsource(value)
except:
src = None

msg = "%s.%s is not a thunk method!"%(clsname,name)
if src:
msg += "\nOffending source:\n\n%s"%src

raise msg
return type.__new__(cls, name, bases, attribs)
class Preconditions (object):
"""
Can only have thunks.
"""

__metaclass__ = MetaChecker
pass

p = Preconditions()
print p
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The result is:
<__main__.__doc__ object at 0x0093E970>

What the heck????????

[Bengt Richter]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:50:24 +0100, Fernando Rodriguez <fr*@easyjob.net> wrote:

Hi,

I have a class Preconditions that has a metaclass (MetaChecker), but I guess I
somehow screwed things up with the metaclass definition...

When I create an instance of Preconditions, I get the doc string instead! =:-O
If I remove the metaclass statemente, everythign works fine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. O:-)

here's my code:
Two suggestions:
For for a more generally useful return value
args = inspect.getargspec(fn)[0] return len(args) == n
and to fix the misleading symptom you observed
return type.__new__(cls, name, bases, attribs)

return type.__new__(cls, clsname, bases, attribs)

(No guarantee that's the end of it ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter