[cairo] pycairo subclass

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Wed Dec 12 07:35:06 PST 2007


On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 05:31 -0500, Steven Chaplin wrote:
> 
>  I think, in general, that since Python has nice support for classes,
> there can be a tendency to want to subclass everything, even when
> subclassing is not necessary.
>  For cairo.Context is does seem reasonable to want to create a
> subclass to add new drawing methods. So future versions of pycairo
> will allow subclassing of cairo.Context.

Now that you say it, I needed to do that in slippy too.  The way I ended
up emulating it of course was:

	def __getattr__ (self, arg):
		return getattr (self.cr, arg)


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