On Apr 6, 10:53 am, Reckoner <recko...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > I have the following problem: I have two objects, say, A and B, which > are both legitimate stand-alone objects with lives of their own. > > A contains B as a property, so I often do > > A.B.foo() > > the problem is that some functions inside of B actually need A > (remember I said they were both standalone objects), so I have to > often do: > > A.B.foo_func(A) > > Which is kind of awkward. > > Is there some way that B.foo_func() could somehow know that it was > called as a property of A in this way? > > Note that I'm looking for the calling object and NOT the calling > function.
Read up on descriptors [1], it seems that's what you're looking for. HTH, George [1] http://users.rcn.com/python/download/Descriptor.htm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
