[Python-3000] Change to class construction? (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 13:03:15 CEST 2007

Brian Harring wrote:

I'd be curious if there is anyway to preserve the existing behaviour; class foo: somelist = ('blacklist1', 'blacklist2') knownbad = somelist += ('blah',) locals().update([(attr, somecallable) for attr in somelist]) is slightly contrived, but I use similar code quite often for method generation- both for tests, and standard enough objects. Realize I could do the same via metaclasses, but it's an extra step and not nearly as easy/friendly imo. So... anyway to preserve that trick under py3k?

As you've written it, that trick isn't affected by the semantic change at all (as the expression inside the list comprehension doesn't try to refer to a class variable).

If 'some_callable' was actually a method of the class, then you'd need to use an actual for loop instead of the list comprehension:

class foo(object): some_list = ('blacklist1', 'blacklist2') def some_method(self): # whatever pass for attr in some_list: locals()[attr] = some_method

However, I will point out that setting class attributes via locals() is formally undefined (it happens to work in current versions of CPython, but there's no guarantee that will always be the case).

Cheers, Nick.

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