Brian van den Broek wrote: > The code below exhibits an attempt to refer to the type of a __Class > from within a method of that class. I've been unable to figure out how > to make it work as I want, and would appreciate any insight. > > The problem emerged out of a bad design that the good folks on the > tutor list helped me repair. With that repair, I no longer need nor > want to do this sort of thing in actual code. But the academic issue > "How/Can it be done?" still itches.
Define the method outside the class to defeat mangling: >>> def __init__(self): ... if type(self) == __Two: ... print "two leading underscores" ... >>> class __Two(object): ... __init__ = __init__ ... >>> __Two() two leading underscores <__main__.__Two object at 0x4029360c> Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
