> Even if you need to do something during attachment of components it is > more Pythonic to use properties. So you will write a method in your > class name something like _set_up(self,upstream_obj) an _get_up(self). > And then at the end of your class put up=property(_get_up, _set_up). > You can still use the compr.up=... format.
sorry, I don't quite follow. what are properties? > Also, you might want to re-think your OO design. It seem that all of > your components do a lot of things in common already. For one they all > are connected to other components like themselves, they also propably > will have method to do some computing, perhaps send or receive stuff > from other components, or they all will implement somekind of an event > model. In that case you could create a generic component class and > sublass the specific implementations from it. yes, I already do this - I have a component class and then the other components inherit from it. Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
