On Mar 1, 3:03 pm, "Arnaud Delobelle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
This is the closest we got so far to the intended result. If there was a way to enter attributes without quotes, it would be almost identical. Anyway, I wonder if the code comparison in www.rubuclr.com between the c# and ruby code is fair... As far as I know, classes and structs are not the same thing. In the case of that ruby example, can someone add methods later? Luis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
