On Mar 15, 11:40 am, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this- cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:43:02 -0700, Michael.Lausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > I managed to get confused by Python, which is not such an easy task. > > > The problem i have is rooted in marshalling, JSON and Dojo. I need some > > static class in function with the name "$ref" i tried: > > class Foo(object): > > @staticmethod > > def _ref(o): > > pass > > > setattr(Foo, "$ref", Foo._ref) > > That doesn't work as expected: > > >>> Foo.__dict__['_ref'] is Foo.__dict__['$ref'] > > False > > Try this instead: > > >>> setattr(Foo, "$ref", Foo.__dict__['_ref']) > >>> Foo.__dict__['_ref'] is Foo.__dict__['$ref'] > > True
Now I'm trying to understand why this is the case. How is Foo.__dict__['_ref'] different from Foo._ref? Shouldn't it return the same attribute? And after further experiments i found out that a making Foo._ref a classmethod does work with my first approach. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
