How to set a class inheritance at instance creation?

[glomde]

Hi I wonder if you can set what subclass a class should
have at instance creation.

The problem is that I have something like:

class CoreLang():
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
pass

class Lang1(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "=", value

class Lang2(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "<=", value

class WriteStruct():
def Generate(self, vars):
for var in vars:
print self.AssignVar()

The problem is that I want WriteStruct to sometimes be a subclass of
Lang1 and sometimes
of Lang2.
In the above example I could but the Generate Method in CoreLang. But
in my real
example I also want to able to subclass WriteStruct to be able to easy
customize WriteStruct.
Which I wouldnt be able to do if it was a method in CoreLang.

So in code I would like to write something like:

WriteStruct(Lang1).Generate(vars)

Even better would be that if I in the Lang1 class could
just do WriteStruct().Generate(vars) and Lang1 class would
magically make WriteStruct a subclass of itself.
Cheers,

/T

[Ramashish Baranwal]

On May 29, 8:52 pm, glomde <[e-mail]:

Hi I wonder if you can set what subclass a class should
have at instance creation.

The problem is that I have something like:

class CoreLang():
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
pass

class Lang1(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "=", value

class Lang2(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "<=", value

class WriteStruct():
def Generate(self, vars):
for var in vars:
print self.AssignVar()

The problem is that I want WriteStruct to sometimes be a subclass of
Lang1 and sometimes
of Lang2.
In the above example I could but the Generate Method in CoreLang. But
in my real
example I also want to able to subclass WriteStruct to be able to easy
customize WriteStruct.
Which I wouldnt be able to do if it was a method in CoreLang.

So in code I would like to write something like:

WriteStruct(Lang1).Generate(vars)

class WriteStruct:
def __init__(self, SubClass):
self._sub = SubClass()
def Generate(self, vars):
for var in vars:
print self._sub.AssignVar()

This does what you want but isn't inheritance.

Even better would be that if I in the Lang1 class could
just do WriteStruct().Generate(vars) and Lang1 class would
magically make WriteStruct a subclass of itself.

I don't think I understood what you want here.

Ram

[shandy.b]

Why not just have Lang1 and Lang2 inherit from WriteStruct as well?

On May 29, 8:52 am, glomde <[e-mail]:

Hi I wonder if you can set what subclass a class should
have at instance creation.

The problem is that I have something like:

class CoreLang():
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
pass

class Lang1(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "=", value

class Lang2(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "<=", value

class WriteStruct():
def Generate(self, vars):
for var in vars:
print self.AssignVar()

The problem is that I want WriteStruct to sometimes be a subclass of
Lang1 and sometimes
of Lang2.
In the above example I could but the Generate Method in CoreLang. But
in my real
example I also want to able to subclass WriteStruct to be able to easy
customize WriteStruct.
Which I wouldnt be able to do if it was a method in CoreLang.

So in code I would like to write something like:

WriteStruct(Lang1).Generate(vars)

Even better would be that if I in the Lang1 class could
just do WriteStruct().Generate(vars) and Lang1 class would
magically make WriteStruct a subclass of itself.

Cheers,

/T

[glomde]

On 29 Maj, 19:27, "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]:

Why not just have Lang1 and Lang2 inherit from WriteStruct as well?

This wont work I think since if add antoher Class:

class WriteStruct():

def func1(self);
print "Hello2"

def Generate(self):
self.func1()

class WriteStruct2(WriteStruct):

def func1(self);
print "Hello"

def Generate(self):
self.func1()

Den if Lang1, inherit both WriteStruct and WriteStruct2 I will
get name clashes.

In my real code I have very big Generate Method in WriteStruct that
calls submethods.
and thes submethods should be overriden by the subclasses. So I cant
change the name
on the submethods.

>
On May 29, 8:52 am, glomde <[e-mail]:

Hi I wonder if you can set what subclass a class should
have at instance creation.

The problem is that I have something like:

class CoreLang():
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
pass

class Lang1(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "=", value

class Lang2(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "<=", value

class WriteStruct():
def Generate(self, vars):
for var in vars:
print self.AssignVar()

The problem is that I want WriteStruct to sometimes be a subclass of
Lang1 and sometimes
of Lang2.
In the above example I could but the Generate Method in CoreLang. But
in my real
example I also want to able to subclass WriteStruct to be able to easy
customize WriteStruct.
Which I wouldnt be able to do if it was a method in CoreLang.

So in code I would like to write something like:

WriteStruct(Lang1).Generate(vars)

Even better would be that if I in the Lang1 class could
just do WriteStruct().Generate(vars) and Lang1 class would
magically make WriteStruct a subclass of itself.

Cheers,

/T

[glomde]

On 29 Maj, 19:20, Ramashish Baranwal <[e-mail]>
wrote:

On May 29, 8:52 pm, glomde <[e-mail]:

Hi I wonder if you can set what subclass a class should
have at instance creation.

The problem is that I have something like:

class CoreLang():
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
pass

class Lang1(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "=", value

class Lang2(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "<=", value

class WriteStruct():
def Generate(self, vars):
for var in vars:
print self.AssignVar()

The problem is that I want WriteStruct to sometimes be a subclass of
Lang1 and sometimes
of Lang2.
In the above example I could but the Generate Method in CoreLang. But
in my real
example I also want to able to subclass WriteStruct to be able to easy
customize WriteStruct.
Which I wouldnt be able to do if it was a method in CoreLang.

So in code I would like to write something like:

WriteStruct(Lang1).Generate(vars)

class WriteStruct:
def __init__(self, SubClass):
self._sub = SubClass()
def Generate(self, vars):
for var in vars:
print self._sub.AssignVar()

This does what you want but isn't inheritance.

This would work I think. Thanks.

>

Even better would be that if I in the Lang1 class could
just do WriteStruct().Generate(vars) and Lang1 class would
magically make WriteStruct a subclass of itself.

I don't think I understood what you want here.

I just dont want to pass the class in the instancecreation.
Somhehow in my:

class Lang1(CoreLang):

def Function(self):
WriteStruct().Generate()

Then somehow this WriteStruct should magically know that has been
instantiated in Lang1.
But this is not really needed. Just wondered if it was possible.

Ram

[Ramashish Baranwal]

On May 29, 8:52 pm, glomde <[e-mail]:

Hi I wonder if you can set what subclass a class should
have at instance creation.

The problem is that I have something like:

class CoreLang():
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
pass

class Lang1(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "=", value

class Lang2(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "<=", value

class WriteStruct():
def Generate(self, vars):
for var in vars:
print self.AssignVar()

The problem is that I want WriteStruct to sometimes be a subclass of
Lang1 and sometimes
of Lang2.
In the above example I could but the Generate Method in CoreLang. But
in my real
example I also want to able to subclass WriteStruct to be able to easy
customize WriteStruct.
Which I wouldnt be able to do if it was a method in CoreLang.

So in code I would like to write something like:

WriteStruct(Lang1).Generate(vars)

class WriteStruct:
def __init__(self, SubClass):
self._sub = SubClass()
def Generate(self, vars):
for var in vars:
print self._sub.AssignVar()

Even better would be that if I in the Lang1 class could
just do WriteStruct().Generate(vars) and Lang1 class would
magically make WriteStruct a subclass of itself.

I don't think I understood what you want here.

Ram

[Stargaming]

glomde schrieb:

Hi I wonder if you can set what subclass a class should
have at instance creation.

The problem is that I have something like:

class CoreLang():
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
pass

class Lang1(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "=", value

class Lang2(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "<=", value

class WriteStruct():
def Generate(self, vars):
for var in vars:
print self.AssignVar()

The problem is that I want WriteStruct to sometimes be a subclass of
Lang1 and sometimes
of Lang2.
In the above example I could but the Generate Method in CoreLang. But
in my real
example I also want to able to subclass WriteStruct to be able to easy
customize WriteStruct.
Which I wouldnt be able to do if it was a method in CoreLang.

So in code I would like to write something like:

WriteStruct(Lang1).Generate(vars)

Even better would be that if I in the Lang1 class could
just do WriteStruct().Generate(vars) and Lang1 class would
magically make WriteStruct a subclass of itself.
Cheers,

/T

If you really need to inherit at runtime, you could utilize `type()`.

>>def foo(self, blah):

.... print self, blah
....

>>attrs = {'foo': foo}
cls = type('MyCls', (object,), attrs)
cls().foo(4)

<__main__.MyCls object at 0x009E86D04

Changing ``object`` (the tuple contains all bases) will change the
parent. But, better stick to previous solutions. :)

Stargaming

[Steve Holden]

glomde wrote:

Hi I wonder if you can set what subclass a class should
have at instance creation.

The problem is that I have something like:

class CoreLang():
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
pass

class Lang1(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "=", value

class Lang2(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "<=", value

class WriteStruct():
def Generate(self, vars):
for var in vars:
print self.AssignVar()

The problem is that I want WriteStruct to sometimes be a subclass of
Lang1 and sometimes
of Lang2.
In the above example I could but the Generate Method in CoreLang. But
in my real
example I also want to able to subclass WriteStruct to be able to easy
customize WriteStruct.
Which I wouldnt be able to do if it was a method in CoreLang.

So in code I would like to write something like:

WriteStruct(Lang1).Generate(vars)

Even better would be that if I in the Lang1 class could
just do WriteStruct().Generate(vars) and Lang1 class would
magically make WriteStruct a subclass of itself.

You should rethink your program design.

It seems that when you create a WriteStruct you should really be passing
its __init__() method the class that you want it to be a "subclass" of,
creating an instance of that class, and then using generic delegation to
that subclass (using a modified __getattr__()) to handle methods that
aren't found in the WriteStruct.

I can see there are circumstances in which this might not work, but I
believe your current ugly intentions reveal a design smell that you
really need to get rid of if you want a clean program.

regards
Steve
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[Steve Holden]

glomde wrote:

Hi I wonder if you can set what subclass a class should
have at instance creation.

The problem is that I have something like:

class CoreLang():
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
pass

class Lang1(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "=", value

class Lang2(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "<=", value

class WriteStruct():
def Generate(self, vars):
for var in vars:
print self.AssignVar()

The problem is that I want WriteStruct to sometimes be a subclass of
Lang1 and sometimes
of Lang2.
In the above example I could but the Generate Method in CoreLang. But
in my real
example I also want to able to subclass WriteStruct to be able to easy
customize WriteStruct.
Which I wouldnt be able to do if it was a method in CoreLang.

So in code I would like to write something like:

WriteStruct(Lang1).Generate(vars)

Even better would be that if I in the Lang1 class could
just do WriteStruct().Generate(vars) and Lang1 class would
magically make WriteStruct a subclass of itself.

You should rethink your program design.

It seems that when you create a WriteStruct you should really be passing
its __init__() method the class that you want it to be a "subclass" of,
creating an instance of that class, and then using generic delegation to
that subclass (using a modified __getattr__()) to handle methods that
aren't found in the WriteStruct.

I can see there are circumstances in which this might not work, but I
believe your current ugly intentions reveal a design smell that you
really need to get rid of if you want a clean program.

regards
Steve
--
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[glomde]

On 29 Maj, 22:45, Steve Holden <[e-mail]:

glomde wrote:

Hi I wonder if you can set what subclass a class should
have at instance creation.

The problem is that I have something like:

class CoreLang():
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
pass

class Lang1(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "=", value

class Lang2(CoreLang):
def AssignVar(self, var, value):
return var, "<=", value

class WriteStruct():
def Generate(self, vars):
for var in vars:
print self.AssignVar()

The problem is that I want WriteStruct to sometimes be a subclass of
Lang1 and sometimes
of Lang2.
In the above example I could but the Generate Method in CoreLang. But
in my real
example I also want to able to subclass WriteStruct to be able to easy
customize WriteStruct.
Which I wouldnt be able to do if it was a method in CoreLang.

So in code I would like to write something like:

WriteStruct(Lang1).Generate(vars)

Even better would be that if I in the Lang1 class could
just do WriteStruct().Generate(vars) and Lang1 class would
magically make WriteStruct a subclass of itself.

You should rethink your program design.

It seems that when you create a WriteStruct you should really be passing
its __init__() method the class that you want it to be a "subclass" of,
creating an instance of that class, and then using generic delegation to
that subclass (using a modified __getattr__()) to handle methods that
aren't found in the WriteStruct.

This is what I am going to do. For some reason I got stuck to think
I needed to solve it with inheritance.

Didnt think of the possibility to modify getattr to make
the delegation be much nicer. Thanks for the tip

>
I can see there are circumstances in which this might not work, but I
believe your current ugly intentions reveal a design smell that you
really need to get rid of if you want a clean program.

regards
Steve
--
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