On 02/21/10 19:27, lallous wrote: <snip> > If the base defines the method and it was empty, then my C++ code > would still call the function. This is not optimal because I don't > want to go from C++ to Python if the _derived_ class does not > implement the cb.
That sounds like a microoptimization; have you profiled your code and determined that calling empty function causes a bottleneck? I doubt it. > Now the base class should define it so that doc > parsers properly describe the base class. > The recipe suggested is not worth the trouble. > Unfortunately I cannot use abc module since I use Python 2.5 Because nobody here could have guessed that your dispatcher was written in C++; your problem is near trivial if your dispatcher is a pure-python code. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
