Re: Issues accessing class attributes of external package distance function

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Fine on all prior to here.

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> 
>> If the intention isn’t to include this in a Weka java based package I’m still unclear on how it is meant to be provided. Again possibly I don’t understand well enough how the Python works.
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> Not quite sure what you mean. The DilcaDistance class (which is
> already available as a Weka package) has a protected field. OP wants
> to access this field directly and turn the stored matrices into numpy
> arrays with no precision loss which currently happens when parsing the
> toString() output of said class.

How it is intended to use the earlier python without somehow adding them to a package is what isn’t clear to me. 
A concern for how the research was going to be made available was indicated by the OP.
That this is somehow possible in a python way without a package or java involved is what I’m not quite understanding.
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> Accessing non-public members/methods is not a very common use-case,
> but sometimes required when you need internally computed/held data
> structures for further processing.
> Over the years, I've had to sub-class plenty of classes to get access
> to such data structures. Annoying, but not really a biggie when you're
> already programming in Java.
> 
Yes. As I mentioned I’ve done it before. Not plenty of times but once or twice.
Really pretty simple and would work well I’d think if a package were provided. Without the need for a cross-language hack.
But I tend to a java bias anyhow.


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