Bengt Richter wrote:
> On 9 Dec 2004 06:11:41 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Egil M?ller) wrote:
>
> >Is there any way to create transparent wrapper objects in Python?
> >
> >I thought implementing __getattribute__ on either the wrapper class
or
> >its metaclass would do the trick, but it does not work
Ah, thanks. I didn't think of the possibility of creating a list of
methods that needed wrapping, and wrapping them uppon creation of the
wrapper object. Mainly I think, becaus it seems to me as such an uggly
workaround for a misdesign in Python. Also, if the wrapped object gets
some extra methods/
As to what I want to use this for, I today have a huge program in which
several objects are wrapped up with comments (made up by some DOMish
structre) which are displayed to the user at various times. For
example, a list of users may be represented as as comment "List of
users" and a python list of
>Well, that could be a feature, depending on what your use case is.
>Or you could make a method for adding methods, I suppose.
>A perfectly transparent wrap of obj would be to do nothing ;-)
>What do you actually want to do?
Actually, the very best would if only type(), isinstance() and the
is-key
