for iteration

[Franck Bui-Huu]

Hello,

I'm trying to customize a list by overriding __getitem__ method but
this change seems to not work with for iteration.
When I use my customized list in a for iteration, all changes made
in __getitem__ are not take into account.
How can I modify this behaviour ?

Thanks

[Peter Otten]

Re: for iteration

Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to customize a list by overriding __getitem__ method but
> this change seems to not work with for iteration.
> When I use my customized list in a for iteration, all changes made
> in __getitem__ are not take into account.
> How can I modify this behaviour ?
>
> Thanks[/color]

For the for loop to work properly, you have to overide the __iter__()
method, e.g.:

class MyList(list):
def __getitem__(sel f, index):
""" for the sake of this example convert item to uppercase """
return list.__getitem_ _(self, index).upper()
def __iter__(self):
""" implemented using a generator """
for i in range(len(self) ):
yield self[i] # calls the customized __getitem__()

myList = MyList(["alpha", "beta", "gamma"])

# works with __getitem__()
for index in range(len(myLis t)):
print myList[index]

print

# works with __iter__()
for item in myList:
print item

Peter

[Franck Bui-Huu]

Re: for iteration

Thanks for your example but I haven't found __iter__ method in list type:
[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> dir(list)[/color][/color][/color]
['__add__', '__class__', '__contains__', '__delattr__', '__delitem__',
'__delsli
ce__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__ge__', '__getattribute __', '__getitem__',
'__gets
lice__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__iadd__', '__imul__', '__init__',
'__le__', '__
len__', '__lt__', '__mul__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__',
'__repr__', '__r
mul__', '__setattr__', '__setitem__', '__setslice__', '__str__',
'append', 'coun
t', 'extend', 'index', 'insert', 'pop', 'remove', 'reverse', 'sort'][color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>>[/color][/color][/color]

Do you know why ?

Peter Otten a écrit:
[color=blue]
>Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
>
>
>[color=green]
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'm trying to customize a list by overriding __getitem__ method but
>>this change seems to not work with for iteration.
>>When I use my customized list in a for iteration, all changes made
>>in __getitem__ are not take into account.
>>How can I modify this behaviour ?
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>[/color]
>
>For the for loop to work properly, you have to overide the __iter__()
>method, e.g.:
>
>class MyList(list):
> def __getitem__(sel f, index):
> """ for the sake of this example convert item to uppercase """
> return list.__getitem_ _(self, index).upper()
> def __iter__(self):
> """ implemented using a generator """
> for i in range(len(self) ):
> yield self[i] # calls the customized __getitem__()
>
>myList = MyList(["alpha", "beta", "gamma"])
>
># works with __getitem__()
>for index in range(len(myLis t)):
> print myList[index]
>
>print
>
># works with __iter__()
>for item in myList:
> print item
>
>Peter
>
>[/color]