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Stefan Franke wrote:
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> Has anyone ever tried to write a class UninversalWrapper, which wraps another
> object of *any* type and tries to emulate its behaviour?
> I see no actual use for this, however, apart from satisfying a vague feeling of
> clearing the language's boundaries.

These thingies do have some use... to hide data from other objects
(or individuals). Have a look at:

http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxProxy.html

Hmm, sure how to subclass an InstanceProxy in XXL though ;-)

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Stefan Franke (spamfranke@bigfoot.de) wrote:
: Has anyone ever tried to write a class UninversalWrapper, which wraps another
: object of *any* type and tries to emulate its behaviour?

There's something that might be what you have in mind, called the
struct module. For documentation, see
http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-struct.html
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