[Python-au] New Python Class Features

[Dave Cole]

> The way I've always found to do this (caveat: I haven't dabbled much
> beyond 1.5.2) is to use the access attribute methods of the object.
> e.g. off the top of my head:
> 
> class foo:
>   def __init__(self):
>     self.attrs = { 'knob1': 11, 'dial2': 'overdrive' }
> 
>   def __getattr__(self, name):
>     if self.attrs.has_key(name):
>       return self.attrs[name]
>     raise "What you talkin' about, Willis?"  # Should be an IndexError, but
> not as entertaining.
> 
>   def __setattr__(self, name, value):
>     raise "I'm a read only object, dagnabbit"
> 
> And so on ... (from memory, there was a caveat lurking here about
> cyclic lookups, but I'm not in front of the appropriate computer at
> the moment).  You can then do funky pre/post conditions once you've
> intercepted the object's get/set methods.

As far as I can remember, you just have to make sure that you do not
invoke __setattr__() in __init__() by doing this:

class foo:
  def __init__(self):
    self.__dict__['attrs'] = { 'knob1': 11, 'dial2': 'overdrive' }

- Dave

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