look at the suggested practice of modifying __module__.
For this particular use case we probably won't end up doing that, but it
may come to be useful in the future.
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> Well, all I will say is that many people on this list, myself
> included, do know Python internals, and we use the method we've been
> suggesting here, without problems.
Ok. That is useful to know (that it is being done in practice without
problems).
Thanks!
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an alternative that mitigates the problem. And it
*is* hacky, in my opinion, if things break as a result of it (such as
the other poster's inspect example).
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and related machinery.
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ty problem. The class
won't actually *BE* org.lib.animal.Monkey. Perhaps manipulating
__module__ is enough; perhaps not (for example, what about
sys.modules?). Looks like I'll just live with putting more than I
would like in the same file.
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lot of code hiding behind the public interface
of a module).
So essentially, Java and Python have the same problem, but certain
aspects of Java happens to mitigate the effects of it. Languages like
Ruby do not have the problem at all, because the relationship between
files and modules is non-existen
verything related to a class in the same file.
The problem is that with Python, everything is not a classes, and a
file translates to a module, not a class. So you cannot have your
source in different files without introducing as many packages as you
introduce files.
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imals as applies to org.lib.animal in
the above example.
[2] Ignoring for now that it may not be realistic that every animal
implementation would be that long; in many cases a lot of code would
be in common. But feel free to substitude for something else (a Zoo
say).
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