add methods in subclasses within the super class constructor
- by deamon
I want to add methods (more specifically: method aliases) automatically to Python subclasses. If the subclass defines a method named 'get' I want to add a method alias 'GET' to the dictionary of the subclass.
To not repeat myself I'd like to define this modifation routine in the base class. But if I check in the base class init method, there is no such method, since it is defined in the subclass. It will become more clear with some source code:
class Base:
def __init__(self):
if hasattr(self, "get"):
setattr(self, "GET", self.get)
class Sub(Base):
def get():
pass
print(dir(Sub))
Output:
['__doc__', '__init__', '__module__', 'get']
It should also contain 'GET'.
Is there a way to do it within the base class?
