As to what I want to use this for, I today have a huge program in which several objects are wrapped up with comments (made up by some DOMish structre) which are displayed to the user at various times. For example, a list of users may be represented as as comment "List of users" and a python list of elements, each being a user id (represented as an integer), with a comment being the username. This means the list is usable both for user-output and for machine-handling. Hm, this wasn't prolly such a good example, but hopefully, it shows enought of the idea...
Tody, the comment-value-pair is an ordinary object with two member variables, and there are two functions, getComment and getValue, which extracts a comment if its argument is such an object, or None otherwise, and the wrapped value if its argument is such an object, and the argument itself otherwize, respectively. This means my code is literally filled with calls to getValue(), which I would like to be able to remove by making the comment-value pair more transparent. The wrapper objects needs to work as dictionary keys, to support printing, concatenation/addition, getitem/setitem and such things... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
