how to get module globals into a class ?

[stef mientki]

hello,

this question may look a little weird,
but I want to create library shells that are a simple as possible.

So I've a module where one base class is defined,
which looks like this (and might be complex)

base_class_file.py
class brick_base ( object ) :
....

now I've a lot of library files,
in each library file are a lot of classes,
and each library-file, has some specific parameters, like "library_color",
so something like this:

library_file.py
library_color = ...

class brick_do_something1( brick_base ) :
init :
self.Library_Color = Library_Color
....

class brick_do_something2( brick_base ) :
init :
self.Library_Color = Library_Color
....

Now this works fine, ...
.... but the statement "self.Library_Color = Library_Color"
is completely redundant, because it should be in every class of every
librray file.
So I would like to move this statement to the base-class-file,
but I can't figure out how to accomplish that.

thanks,
Stef Mientki

[Peter Otten]

stef mientki wrote:

hello,

this question may look a little weird,
but I want to create library shells that are a simple as possible.

So I've a module where one base class is defined,
which looks like this (and might be complex)

base_class_file.py
class brick_base ( object ) :
....

now I've a lot of library files,
in each library file are a lot of classes,
and each library-file, has some specific parameters, like "library_color",
so something like this:

library_file.py
library_color = ...

class brick_do_something1( brick_base ) :
init :
self.Library_Color = Library_Color
....

class brick_do_something2( brick_base ) :
init :
self.Library_Color = Library_Color
....

Now this works fine, ...
... but the statement "self.Library_Color = Library_Color"
is completely redundant, because it should be in every class of every
librray file.
So I would like to move this statement to the base-class-file,
but I can't figure out how to accomplish that.

You can use a hack like

class Base(object):
def __init__(self):
module = __import__(self.__module__)
self.library_color = module.library_color

But I think it's better to add another level to the class hierarchy:

class BrickBase(object):
def __init__(self):
self.library_color = self.library_color

class LibraryBase(BrickBase):
library_color = "blue"

class BrickDoSomethingN(LibraryBase):
pass

(all untested)

Peter