In article <mailman.3131.1385302390.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Steven D'Aprano > <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > Not quite impossible. All you need is an object that behaves like a > > string, except it has a __call__ method. Here's a sketch of a solution, > > completely untested. > > > > class Magic_HTTP_Thing: > > @property > > def attribute(self): > > result = CallableStr(self.do_get()) > > result.function = lambda: self.do_put() > > Problem with that is that it'll still call do_get immediately. You'd > have to somehow defer this call until it's actually _used_, which is > why I dropped a mention of "converting to str?" - which would > presumably be a __str__ method. But I still don't like the API. > > ChrisA If the REST interface is designed properly, all the GETs are nullipotent, so modulo efficiency, it should all work. But, yeah, this seems really ugly. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
