On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:02:05 +0100, egbert wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:45:45 -0800, manstey wrote:
>>
>> class Test(object):
>> def __init__(self, val):
>> self.val = val
>>
>> a = Test('hello')
>
>> Is there a way to make a have the value a.val when it is used as
>> above, or as an argument (eg function(a, 10, 'sdf') etc)?
>>
> My impression is that you can do everything you want to
> by making your instance callable, and not using a but a().
You can't do this:
>>> a() = "some value"
SyntaxError: can't assign to function call
If you do this:
>>> a = "some value"
then we're back to the Original Poster's original problem.
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