On Jun 13, 10:04 pm, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gabriel Genellina wrote: > > En Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:11:22 -0300, nik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > >> It would seem that I want to actually save the source code for the > >> class. I know that I could of course open up an editor and just make > >> it, but my ideal would be to have the base class, Map, be able to make > >> the sub-classes. I don't want the class definition. What I want is an > >> actual class that I could later import and use somewhere else. I am > >> planning to have each one of these map objects contain a different > >> dictionary and then be able to import the map into the application, > >> but have certain methods defined in the Map super-class to draw data > >> out of the specific map's specific dictionary. I hope that makes > >> sense. > > >> Something like, > >> class Map: > >> dict = {} > >> def DoSomething(self): > >> pass > > >> def MakeNewMapSubClass(self, newclassname): > >> """ make a new file, newclassname.py that contains a new > >> class > >> newclassname(Map) that inherits from base-class Map. > > > And are you sure you actually need different subclasses? Will you > > construct them several instances of each subclass? From the above > > description I feel you want just different Map *instances*, each with > > its own dict, not different *subclasses*. > > What you said, and that his solution sounds like a Java approach to the > problem (subclass an abstract base class that calls specific methods on > the subclass to "do the right thing"). > > To offer the OP source he can use... > > class Map: > def __init__(self): > self.dict = {} > def DoSomething(self): > #do something with self.dict > > Every instance gets a new dictionary. Now, if he actually wants to > change the behavior of the DoSomething method, of course then it would > make sense to subclass Map. > > - Josiah
I am hoping to change the self.dict for each subclass. I realize that I could save self.dict to file and then load in different dicts each time I get a new instance of class. But I want to be able to make subclasses of map that each have different self.dict. Then when I need to use them, just import the module and use the specific dict, instead of having to keep track of a separate dictionary file. I am new to this, but I thought that this would be a regular thing to do in python, because people must make classes in the interactive console and then export them somehow for later use. Thank you for your responses.
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