"Tim Henderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I want to creat a program that can inspect a set of classes that i
have
> made and spit out a savable version of these classes. To do this I
need
> to be able to inspect each class and get all of its instance data as
> well as information about a particular meathod. This is what i want
it
> to do:
>
>
> class song:
> def __init__(self, name, artist, album, published):
> self.name = name
> self.artist = artist
> self.album = album
> self.published = published
> def build(self, name, artist, album, published):
> self.name = name
> self.artist = artist
> self.album = album
> self.published = published
>
> #now what i want to do with this dummy class
> s = song("12:51", "The Strokes", "Room on Fire", 2005)
> print getTextVersion(s)
>
> <class>
> <name>song</name>
> <data>
> <attribute>
> <date_type>string</data_type>
> <value>12:51</value>
> <attribute_name>name</attribute_name>
> </attribute>
> <attribute>
> <date_type>string</data_type>
> <value>The Strokes</value>
> <attribute_name>artist</attribute_name>
> </attribute>
> <attribute>
> <date_type>string</data_type>
> <value>Room on Fire</value>
> <attribute_name>album</attribute_name>
> </attribute>
> <attribute>
> <date_type>int</data_type>
> <value>2005</value>
> <attribute_name>published</attribute_name>
> </attribute>
> </data>
> <build_parameter_order>name artist album
> published</build_parameter_order>
> </class>
>
>
> I have no idea how to do the inspection part of this little problem.
I
> could just have each class define its own meathod to convert to this
> format, but that would be a lot of work when i could just make one
> class that solves the problem for all classes. Is there a way to do
> this?
>
> cheers
> ---
> Tim Henderson
> mail me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check out the gnosis.magic package of David Mertz (
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-pymeta.html).
Even if it's not exactly what you want, it will give you an idea of
where to go from there.
George
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