On Mar 1, 4:01 pm, Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arnaud Delobelle wrote: [...] > This does pretty much the same thing as the recipe I posted:
Not at all. My new_struct create returns a new class which is similar to a C struct (notice the __slots__). The recipe you refer to is nothing more a class which can be initialised with some attributes. It does not address the OP's question at all. > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/502237 > > Note that your approach requires repetition of the 'Person' and quotes > around each attribute name, which the OP complained about. The recipe at > least gets rid of the repetition of 'Person'. The 'name' argument is not necessary. It is just here to give a user- friendly name to the newly created class. One could just as well write the new_struct function so that >>> Person = new_struct('name', 'tel', ...) Of course it would be impossible for the function written as above to name the class in a user-meaningful way. The recipe you refer to does not face this problem because it is not a method to quickly create a new class, it is merely a class whose __init__ method allows you to initialise some attribute at instance-creation time. As for the quotes around the attribute names, well... Let's say that if it was possible to do without, I don't think I would be using python... -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
