On Sunday, July 28, 2013 10:51:57 PM UTC-4, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 7/28/2013 9:38 PM, Tim O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> >
>
> > I hope that this hasn't been asked for the millionth time, so my apologies
> > if it has.
>
> >
>
> > I have a base class (BaseClass - we'll call it for this example) with an
> > http call that i would like to inherit into a dynamic class at runtime.
> > We'll call that method in BaseClass; 'request'.
>
> >
>
> > I have a dictionary(json) of key (class name): value(method) that I would
> > like to create inheriting this 'request' method from the BaseClass. So the
> > derived class would look something like this
>
> >
>
> > definition in json:
>
> > {"Whatever": [{"method1": "Some Default", "async": True},{"method2": "Some
> > Other Default", "async": True}]}
>
> >
>
> > Ideally I'd like the class def to look something like this if i were to
> > type it out by hand
>
> >
>
> > [excuse the indents]
>
> >
>
> > class Whatever(BaseClass):
>
> > def method1(self):
>
> > stupid_data = super(Whatever, self).request("method1")
>
> > return stupid_data
>
> >
>
> > def method2(self):
>
> > stupid_data = super(Whatever, self).request("method1")
>
> > return stupid_data
>
> >
>
> > Now, I've been trying to do this using the python cli, with out success.
>
> >
>
> > So, attempting this at runtime I get a plethora of wonderful errors that I
> > suspect has broken my brain.
>
> >
>
> > Here is what i've tried:
>
> >
>
> > # trying with just an empty object of type BaseClass
>
> > obj = type("Object", (BaseClass,), {})
>
> >
>
> > whatever = type("WhatEver", (obj,), {"method1": super(WhatEver,
> > self).request("method1")})
>
>
>
> 'method1' has to be mapped to a function object.
But isn't that what calling super is doing? Calling the function object of the
parent class BaseClass?
>
> > but when i try this I get 'NameError: name 'self' is not defined'
>
> >
>
> > defining these classes manually works...
>
> >
>
> > I hope that this was clear enough, apologies if it wasn't. It's late(ish),
> > I'm tired and borderline frustrated :) But enough about me...
>
> >
>
> > Thanks in advance.
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> >
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> --
>
> Terry Jan Reedy
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