Steve Holden wrote: > Indeed, they will probably just need to pass "self" as an argument to > the child object's creator (it will become an argument to the __init__() > method). This will be pretty cheap, since the additional attribute will > be bound to an already-existing value. > >> On the other hand, the introspecitve stuff is cool! When you say "make >> more work for yourself" are you talking about 400 lines of code or 50. >> Further, is there much processing required to do the magic? When python >> do introspective magic, is it memory intensive? by that I mean does it >> have to make copies of the objects to do the look-ups? >> > Frankly I am not sure I see the advantage. You seem to be saying that > rather than provide each child object with a reference to its parent you > would rather provide it with a reference to the collection of parent > objects and let it work out which one it wants. Where's the benefit? All right then.
> Happy to help, but I can't take credit for the grant, since all I did as > a PSF director was vote affirmatively on the recommendations of Martin > von Lowis' extremely hard-working grants committee. Thanks to the PSF for the grant! -Matthew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
