Problems with subclassing

[Alexander Stante]

Hello,

I have the following problem. I want to subclass from the pygame class
Surface, but I can't get it working:

class sprite(Surface):
def __init__(self, image_array, palette):
"some code here"

when I want to create a instance with:

gfx.sprite(arrayi, palette)


I get the following error message:
TypeError: argument 1 must be sequence of length 2, not 100

It seems that the constructor of Surface is not overrided by the one in
sprite, but why?

 

[Alex Martelli]

I have the following problem. I want to subclass from the pygame class
Surface, but I can't get it working:

class sprite(Surface):
def __init__(self, image_array, palette):
"some code here"

when I want to create a instance with:

gfx.sprite(arrayi, palette)


I get the following error message:
TypeError: argument 1 must be sequence of length 2, not 100

It seems that the constructor of Surface is not overrided by the one in
sprite, but why?

It's possible (I'm just guessing) that the problem comes with respect to
__new__ rather than __init__ ...?


Alex

 

[Gerrit]

I have the following problem. I want to subclass from the pygame class
Surface, but I can't get it working:

class sprite(Surface):
def __init__(self, image_array, palette):
"some code here"

when I want to create a instance with:

gfx.sprite(arrayi, palette)


I get the following error message:
TypeError: argument 1 must be sequence of length 2, not 100

It seems that the constructor of Surface is not overrided by the one in
sprite, but why?

I think you want to override __new__, not __init__, if if could be
working at all that is. GvR wrote a lengthy introduction to this (among
other things) when Py 2.2 was released: google for "descriptor" and it
should end up somewhere.

It's also possible that Surface is not a viable baseclass at all. You
may want to consult the Pygame mailing list about that.

yours,
Gerrit.

 

[Chris S.]

Hello,

I have the following problem. I want to subclass from the pygame class
Surface, but I can't get it working:

class sprite(Surface):
def __init__(self, image_array, palette):
"some code here"

when I want to create a instance with:

gfx.sprite(arrayi, palette)


I get the following error message:
TypeError: argument 1 must be sequence of length 2, not 100

It seems that the constructor of Surface is not overrided by the one in
sprite, but why?

Try manually specifying the subclassed constructor within your new
constructor. For example:

class sprite(Surface):
def __init__(self, image_array, palette):
Surface.__init__(self, someargs)

Then, ensure you are instantiating the subclass correctly.