Re: [SQLObject] overriding new and calling the original method doesn't work

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

On Dec 15, 2003, at 4:26 AM, Guenther Starnberger wrote:
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> hi,
>
> some time ago there was a thread on this mailinglist, about overiding 
> the
> new() method in classes inherited from SQLObject.
> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.sqlobject/906)
>
> according to a posting in this thread it is possible to call the 
> 'original'
> SQLObject new() method by: 'SQLObject.new(cls, **kw)'.
>
> but somehow this doesn't work for me :/
>
> class Account(SQLObject):
> __name = StringCol(alternateID = True)
> __password = StringCol()
>
> __def new(cls, **kw):
> ____print "FOO"
> ____SQLObject.new(cls, **kw)
>
> __new = classmethod(new)
>
> calling Account.new just results in the following exception when 
> SQLObject.new
> gets called:
>
> TypeError: new() takes exactly 1 non-keyword argument (2 given)
>
> i tried some variantions of calling SQLObject.new (e.g. without cls, 
> ...) but
> they didn't work.
>
> any ideas how it is possible to call SQLObject.new?

Yes, it seems like classmethods are a little funny.  I think I've 
gotten it to work with super(MyClass).new(**kw)


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