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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 22:17:03 +0100
Subject: Re: How to subclass a family
From: Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com>
To: Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be>
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On 8 April 2013 10:44, Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
> Here is the idea. I have a number of classes with the same interface.
> Something like the following:
>
> class Foo1:
>     def bar(self, ...):
>         work
>     def boo(self, ...):
>         do something
>         self.bar(...)
>
> What I want is the equivallent of:
>
> class Far1(Foo1):
>     def boo(self, ...)
>         do something different
>         if whatever:
>             self.bar(...)
>         else:
>             Foo1.boo(self, ...)
>
> Now of course I could subclass every class from the original family
> from Foo1 to Foon but that would mean a lot of duplicated code. Is
> there a way to reduce the use of duplicated code in such circumstances?
>

(Python 3)
------------------------------
class Foo1:
	def bar(self):
		print('Foo1.bar')
	def boo(self, whatever):
		print('Foo1.boo', whatever)
		self.bar()

# class Foo2: ...(I'll let you define this one)

class DifferentBoo:
	def boo(self, whatever):
		print('DifferentBoo.boo', whatever)
		if whatever:
			self.bar()
		else:
			super().boo(whatever)

class Far1(DifferentBoo, Foo1): pass
# class Far2(DifferentBoo, Foo2): pass

------------------------------
>>> foo = Foo1()
>>> foo.bar()
Foo1.bar
>>> foo.boo(1)
Foo1.boo 1
Foo1.bar
>>> far = Far1()
>>> far.bar()
Foo1.bar
>>> far.boo(0)
DifferentBoo.boo 0
Foo1.boo 0
Foo1.bar
>>> far.boo(1)
DifferentBoo.boo 1
Foo1.bar

HTH,

-- 
Arnaud