Hi I have a closed class and 2 factories function class Data: def __init__(self): self.payload=None
def data_from_string(payload): data=Data() data.payload=payload return data def data_from_file(f): data=Data() data.payload=f.read() return data And I want to extend the class, by first including the factories function inside the constructor, second add some method to the class. class MyData(Data): def __init__(self, arg): # I know this coke is not working, this is to show you # what I expect if isinstance(arg, file): self=data_from_file(arg) else: self=data_from_string(arg) return self def len(self): return len(self.payload) And how I want to use it >>> m=MyData('hello') >>> print m.len() 5 any idea ? Alain -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list