Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.python

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 23:39:26 -0500, George Neuner wrote:
>>Programming with closures is more like using "prototype OO". Prototype
>>systems don't have classes, but rather ANY object can be modified to
>>change its set of instance data and/or methods, and can be cloned to
>>create new objects of that same "type".
>That’s true of Python, too.

Yes that's true. Forgive me guys if that's too "off topic"
in comp.lang.lisp, but it might not be obvious how to create
an object in Python and then attach fields or methods to it.
So here I humbly submit a small example program to show this.

main.py

from types import *

# create a new object
def counter_object(): pass

# attach a numeric field to the object
counter_object.counter_value = 0

# define a named function
def increment_value( self ): self.counter_value += 1

# attach the named function to the object as a method
counter_object.increment_value = \
MethodType( increment_value, counter_object )

# call the method
counter_object.increment_value()

# attach an unnamed function to the object
counter_object.get_value = \
MethodType( lambda self: self.counter_value, counter_object )

# call that method
print( counter_object.get_value() )

This program will then print "1" and a line terminator.

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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>from types import *

What do you mean, the cloning part is missing?

import types

# create a new object
def counter_object(): pass

# attach a numeric field to the object
counter_object.counter_value = 0

# define a named function
def increment_value( self ): self.counter_value += 1

# attach the named function to the object as a method
counter_object.increment_value = \
types.MethodType( increment_value, counter_object )

# call the method
counter_object.increment_value()

# attach an unnamed function to the object
counter_object.get_value = \
types.MethodType( lambda self: self.counter_value, counter_object )

# call that method
# Prints "1".
print( counter_object.get_value() )

# An ad-hoc function to clone an object for the purpose of "prototype
# inheritance". Might need to be refined for more general uses.
def clone_object( object_ ):
def new_object(): pass
for attribute in dir( object_ ):
if attribute[ :2 ]!= '__':
if type( getattr( object_, attribute ))== types.MethodType:
method = getattr( object_, attribute )
function = types.FunctionType( method.__code__, {} )
method = types.MethodType( function, new_object )
setattr( new_object, attribute, method )
else:
field = getattr( object_, attribute )
setattr( new_object, attribute, field )
return new_object

# create two "clones" ("clone objects")
clone = clone_object( counter_object )
other = clone_object( counter_object )

# The clones "inherited" the counter field including its value.
# Prints "1 1 1".
print( counter_object.get_value(), clone.get_value(), other.get_value() )

# Each object's counter has a value independent from the other object's
# counter.
other.increment_value()

# Prints "1 1 2"
print( counter_object.get_value(), clone.get_value(), other.get_value() )

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
>What do you mean, the cloning part is missing?

Most standard functions do not call the custom dunder methods
of our prototype-based objects. Yes, the standard library was
written for class-based objects ("3.3.12 Special method lookup")!

However, if you just need few staples such as "str" and "print",
you can define them yourself. (The standard library will not
use them, but you can call them in your own code.)

import types

# a custom global str functions for prototype objects
# used below
def str( x ): return x.__str__()

# a custom global print functions for prototype objects
# used below
std_print = print
def print( *args, **kwargs ):
return std_print( *( arg.__str__() for arg in args ), **kwargs )

# create a new object
def counter_object(): pass

# attach a numeric field to the object
counter_object.counter_value = 0

# define a named function
def increment_value( self ): self.counter_value += 1

# attach the named function to the object as a method
counter_object.increment_value = \
types.MethodType( increment_value, counter_object )

# call the method
counter_object.increment_value()

# attach an unnamed function to the object
counter_object.get_value = \
types.MethodType( lambda self: self.counter_value, counter_object )

# attach an unnamed function to the object
counter_object.__str__ = \
types.MethodType\
( lambda self: str( self.counter_value ), counter_object )

# call that method
# Prints "1".
print( counter_object.get_value() )

# An ad-hoc function to clone an object for the purpose of "prototype
# inheritance". Might need to be refined for more general uses.
def clone_object( object_ ):
def new_object(): pass
for attribute in dir( object_ ):
if attribute[ :2 ]!= '__' or attribute in[ '__str__' ]:
if type( getattr( object_, attribute ))== types.MethodType:
method = getattr( object_, attribute )
function = types.FunctionType\
( method.__code__, globals() )
method = types.MethodType( function, new_object )
setattr( new_object, attribute, method )
else:
field = getattr( object_, attribute )
setattr( new_object, attribute, field )
return new_object

# create two "clones" ("clone objects")
clone = clone_object( counter_object )
other = clone_object( counter_object )

# The clones "inherited" the counter field including its value.
# Prints "1 1 1".
print( counter_object.get_value(), clone.get_value(), other.get_value() )

# Each object's counter has a value independent from the other
# object's counter.
other.increment_value()

# Prints "1 1 2"
print( counter_object.get_value(), clone.get_value(), other.get_value() )

# Prints "1 1 2"
print( str( counter_object ), str( clone ), str( other ))

# Prints "1 1 2"
print( counter_object, clone, other )