[PEAK] Using peak.model as an observer subject

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Sep 1 23:27:42 EDT 2004


At 09:48 PM 9/1/04 -0500, Doug Quale wrote:
>"Phillip J. Eby" <pje at telecommunity.com> writes:
>
> > At 09:11 PM 9/1/04 -0500, Doug Quale wrote:
> >
> > >I have a Python 101 type question:  What is the advantage of using
> > >key = feature.attrName+'__event' instead of key = '__event'?
> >
> > To have an event object for each feature.
>
>But doesn't each feature already have a separate __dict__?

It does, but that's not the one we're using.  If we did, callbacks would be 
issued when that feature was changed on *any* object, not just the one we 
registered on.


>   I apologize if I'm just being dense.

It's not you, it's me...  I just looked back at what I wrote and I had 
'feature.__dict__' where I meant to use 'element.__dict__'.  Good catch.




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