Re: [pygame] subclassing rect

[Pete Shinners <shredwheat@attbi.com>]

Antti Kaihola wrote:
> While learning the basics I ran into a subclassing issue: I couldn't
> subclass the Rect class. See the python session below.
> A related page at http://pygame.org/pcr/submissions/01062002a.html
> states: "Before Python 2.2, data types implemented in C (such as
> pygame's Rect class) couldn't be subclassed. Pete included the UserRect
> module - it's just the thinnest possible python wrapper around Rect.
> However, it would be cleaner and faster just to upgrade to python 2.2,
> and subclass the actual Rect class."
> Am I missing something?

hmm, i see. well i did add the code i thought was needed to make Rect and 
Surface objects subclassable. Unfortunately doing this to C Objects is not 
documented at all in the python docs (so i've been learning from example in 
the python source). there must be some extra method or configuration i need 
to make for them to really work. i noticed if the subclass doesn't have its 
own __init__ method, you can instance the classes fine, but any new methods 
you add to the class don't seem to show up, hrmmm..

i wish i could get a python extension guru on hand :]


> BTW, has anyone set up a keyword searchable archive for this mailing
> list?

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