Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid> writes:
> Anyway: the simplest solution here is to replace the call to your Base > class with a call to a factory function. I'd probably go for something > like (Q&D untested code and other usual warnings) : > > (...) Yeah, that will do what I want. My confusion arose from the expectation that there had to be some mechanism to do the conversion automatically. But actually a simple def bar(arg): if not isinstance(arg, Base): arg = Base(arg) # Do something with arg. is a simple and explicit solution of the problem. Thanks Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list