Re: Python Macros

From: G. S. Hayes (sjdevnull_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: 5 Oct 2004 08:38:29 -0700

Arich Chanachai <macrocosm@fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:<mailman.4287.1096945195.5135.python-list@python.org>...
> What if foo doesn't know about bar(), can I tell foo that perhaps it
> should send the bar() message to...say....boo?

Sure. Just override __getattr__ in foo's class. The below is a
simple example, in real life you might want a way to designate where a
particular Foo delegates unknown requests (e.g to a particular Bar
instance)

class Boo(object):
    def bar(klass, arg):
        print "bar", arg
    bar = classmethod(bar)

class Foo(object):
    def __getattr__(self, attr):
        if not hasattr(self, attr):
            return getattr(Boo, attr)
        return self.__dict__[attr]
    def foo(self, arg):
        print "foo", arg

foo = Foo()
foo.foo("hello")
foo.bar("goodbye")

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