On 12/07/2015 11:10 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > I have a class A, containing embedded embedded classes, which need to > access methods from A. > . > A highly contrived example, where I'm setting up an outer class in a > Has-a relationship, containing a number of Actors. The inner class needs > to access a method of the outer class; here the method get_name. > > I don't really want to make Actor a sub-class (is-a; it isn't) of Monty; > that would raise all sorts of other problems. > > Can anyone please advise me on how to achieve this magic?
You could add an attribute to each embedded object that provides a reference back to the container object. All in all, this design has a kind of smell to it. Would it not be better to ask the container class for information about the children, rather than the other way around? If a piece of code holds a reference to the child object then it must also by definition hold a reference to the container object, so why can't it ask the container object directly? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
