[Python-Dev] Issue 643841: Including a new-style proxy base class in 2.6/3.0 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue May 27 15:32:38 CEST 2008

Michael Foord wrote:

Nick Coghlan wrote:

- ProxyMixin correctly delegates in-place assignment operations via the i* methods (note however that using in-place assignment will remove the proxy wrapper, just as it does for weakref.proxy) Couldn't in place operations wrap the return value with a proxy?

They could, but I tried to copy as much behaviour as possible from weakref.proxy which loses the proxy wrapper when you do an in-place operation:

from weakref import proxy as p class MyInt(int): pass ... x = MyInt(1) px = p(x) px <weakproxy at 0xb768f11c to MyInt at 0xb768d86c> px += 1 px 2

class MyList(list): pass ... y = MyList([]) py = p(y) py <weakproxy at 0xb768f16c to MyList at 0xb768f0f4> py += [] py []

That said, it wouldn't be hard (and might make more sense) to redefine the proxied in-place operations along the following lines:

See tracker item for _deref/_unwrap definitions

def iadd(self, other): target = _deref(self) result = target + _unwrap(other) if result is target: # Mutated in-place, keep same proxy result = self else: # Returned a different object, make a new proxy result = type(self)(result) return result

However, if we did something like that, I'd prefer to see the weakref.proxy implementation change to provide similar semantics.

Cheers, Nick.

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