Thanos said:
Hello.
(How) can I have a class property d, such that d['foo'] = 'bar' will run
a certain function of the class with 'foo' and 'bar' as it's arguments?
I think you mean:
class A:
def __init__(self):
self.d = {}
def dict_change(self, key, value):
print key, value
a = A()
a.d['foo'] = 'bar'
--> foo bar
'a' only has a reference to 'd', it won't know, who has a copy of this
reference and what done to it.
What you could create, is a wrapper around 'd', that passes __getitem__,
__setitem__ and every other required method to the underlying dict and call
the appropriate hook method of A
class WrappedDict:
def __init__(self, owner, d):
self.owner = owner
self.d = d
def __setitem__(self, key, value):
self.owner.dict_changed(key, value)
self.d[key] = value
def __getitem(self, key):
return self.d[key]
....
And in A.__init__
self.d = WrappedDict(self, {})
You may also subclass WrappedDict from dict...
