Re: question

Samuele Pedroni <[email protected]>:
>
> Hi.
> 
> Why
[snip]
> vs.
>     def noWidget(self):
>        try:
>          return isinstance(self.widget,DummyWidget)
>        except AttributeError:
>          return 1

Kneejerk reaction against type checking (evil, evil ;)

The current versions allows for any sort of signature-equivalent
dummies, not just the specific one in question. Not very useful,
perhaps, but all other things being equal, I'd rather avoid type
checking... :]

On the other hand, this dummy system may not be the best way of
handling the situation at all -- I didn't really give it long and hard
thought between I implemented it. Perhaps there could be some other
way of doing this stuff... The idea was to avoid checking for dummies
in all the get/set methods. It seems that some has snuck back, at
least in the getters, to avoid returning None where a string or number
is expected, for instance. Not ideal...

(BTW: There is a function in Util that does this dummy-checking job,
so there is actually duplicated functionality here, with this method.)

-- 
Magnus Lie Hetland                                  The Anygui Project
http://hetland.org                                  http://anygui.org


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