How do I use the Proxy recipe ?

2007-12-21 Thread English, Mark
The proxy recipe http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/252151 (*) by Goncalo Rodrigues shows how to wrap an existing instance of a new or old style class in a "Proxy" instance. I'm just wondering what a programmer does once that's been achieved ? Is he or she supposed to patch the

operator module isSequenceType with builtin set produces False

2007-12-18 Thread English, Mark
X-Replace-Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] receding_xxxs_.com This wasn't what I was expecting, so I thought I'd ask those more knowledgeable, which is pretty much everybody. Same result on Python 2.3.5 and Python 2.5.1 installed from python.org binaries on Windows XP. >>> try: set >>> except NameError

Re: Convert obejct string repr to actual object

2007-10-15 Thread English, Mark
X-Replace-Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12 Oct, 18:14, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 17:41 +0100, English, Mark wrote: > > > From: Tor Erik Sønvisen > > > Date: October 8th 2007 > > > I've tried locating some code th

Re: Convert obejct string repr to actual object

2007-10-12 Thread English, Mark
> From: Tor Erik Sønvisen > Date: October 8th 2007 > I've tried locating some code that can recreate an object from > it's string representation... On a related note I've wondered about this: >>> class Foo(object): pass >>> f = Foo() >>> s = repr(f) >>> s '<__main__.Foo object at 0x007CBAB0>' So