are you creating a facade? maybe you want something like this:
Making a facade in Python 2.5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facade_pattern
you could also use delegators. here's an example from the wxpython AGW:
_methods = ["GetIndent", "SetIndent", "GetSpacing", "SetSpacing", "GetImageList", "GetStateImageList",
"GetButtonsImageList", "AssignImageList", "AssignStateImageList", "AssignButtonsImageList",
"SetImageList", "SetButtonsImageList", "SetStateImageList", 'other_methods']
def create_delegator_for(method):
"""
Creates a method that forwards calls to `self._main_win` (an instance of :class:`TreeListMainWindow`).
:param `method`: one method inside the :class:`TreeListMainWindow` local scope.
"""
def delegate(self, *args, **kwargs):
return getattr(self._main_win, method)(*args, **kwargs)
return delegate
# Create methods that delegate to self._main_win. This approach allows for
# overriding these methods in possible subclasses of HyperTreeList
for method in _methods:
setattr(HyperTreeList, method, create_delegator_for(method))
Note that these wrap class methods... i.e both functions take a signature like def func(self, some, other, args)
and are intended to be called like self.func(some, args)
. If you want to delegate a class function to a non-class function, you'll need to modify the delegator.