Thread: Ask me about Python

It's kinda tough for me to help with this as I'm limited to coding in javascript at the moment. Hence I can't post running code.

It seems like it would be best to make IrcSocket a wrapper class that provides the necessary functionality using parasitic inheritance instead of classical inheritance. IIRC, socket.socket is a c class and things can get pretty hair extending those. Something like

Code:

class IrcSocket:   #No need to extend object because this is p3k
    def __init__(self, id, socket):
        self.id = id
        self._socket = socket
 
    def send(self, bytes):
        log(bytes)
        socket.socket.sendall(self._socket, bytes)

Then you can get your hands on one with something like

Code:

 
  ircsocket = IrcSocket(some_id, socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM))

This just instantiates the socket inline and immiediately passes it to the IrcSocket class constructor.

You can just do

Code:

 
wrapped_socket =  IrcSocket(some_id, socket.accept(*args))

to wrap the regular socket that socket.accept returns. Again, you're just making the call inline and passing it to the constructor.

Like I said, that's psuedocode because I can't run it and I don't have the library memorized but that's the basic idea.