Question

in my project I have to repeat often such part of code:

class SimplePhysicObject(Object):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Object, self).__init__('SimplePhysicObject')

But instead of SimplePhysicObject there is new string each time. Are there any ways to write some macro to make this work easier? Something like:

DoTemplate(NewObject)
==>
class NewObject(Object):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Object, self).__init__('NewObject')

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UPD Sorry, Object is my own class declared before in code

Answer 1

I don’t see a reason why Object should need the actual class name as a parameter. You can access the actual class name in Object via self.__class__.__name__:

class Object(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.name = self.__class__.__name__

class SimplePhysicObject(Object):
    pass

a = SimplePhysicObject()
print a.name

will print

SimplePhysicObject

This is slightly different than your original code: If you derive from SimplePhysicObject, the name attribute will be set to the name of the derived class, whereas your original code would continue to use "SimplePhysicObject".