I have a set of Python classes that represent elements in a structural model for vibration modeling (sort of like FEA). Some of the parameters of the model are initially unknown and I do some system identification to determine the parameters. After I determine these unknown parameters, I would like to substitute them back into the model and save the model as a new python class. To do this, I think each element needs to be able to read in the code for its __init__ method, make the substitutions and then write the new __init__ method to a file defining a new class with the now known parameters.
Is there a way for a Python instance to access its own code (especially the __init__ method)? And if there is, is there a clean way to write the modified code back to a file? I assume that if I can get the code as a list of strings, I can output it to a file easily enough. I am tempted to just read in the code and write a little Python script to parse it to get me the __init__ methods, but that seems like reinventing the wheel. Thanks, Ryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
