Has a best-practice around using setAttribute instead of the dot (.) attribute notation been developed? E.g.: myObj.setAttribute(“className”, “nameOfClass”); myObj.setAttribute(“id”, “someID”); or myObj.className = “nameOfClass”; myObj.id = “someID”; 12 Answers 12
I have an AppleScript script that runs a stress test. Part of the test is to open, save, and close certain files. Somehow, the files have picked up some “extended attributes” that prohibit the files from being saved. That causes the stress test to fail. How do I remove the extended attributes? 5 Answers 5
In Java, what’s the difference between: private final static int NUMBER = 10; and private final int NUMBER = 10; Both are private and final, the difference is the static attribute. What’s better? And why? 22 Answers 22
This question already has answers here: difference between variables inside and outside of __init__() (12 answers) Closed 1 year ago. I noticed that in Python, people initialize their class attributes in two different ways. The first way is like this: class MyClass: __element1 = 123 __element2 = “this is Africa” def __init__(self): #pass or something … Read more
I have created a JS class to populate SG/Folder list view data, when items are modified. (As per Jaime’s approach) Everything works great when I operate on items in the publication they’re created in. Ex: I open a component or page and the custom locked by column immediately updates and shows my user name. However, … Read more
I find it more convenient to access dict keys as obj.foo instead of obj[‘foo’], so I wrote this snippet: class AttributeDict(dict): def __getattr__(self, attr): return self[attr] def __setattr__(self, attr, value): self[attr] = value However, I assume that there must be some reason that Python doesn’t provide this functionality out of the box. What would be … Read more
I want to create a dynamic object (inside another object) in Python and then add attributes to it. I tried: obj = someobject obj.a = object() setattr(obj.a, ‘somefield’, ‘somevalue’) but this didn’t work. Any ideas? edit: I am setting the attributes from a for loop which loops through a list of values, e.g. params = … Read more
What is the syntax for doing something like: input[name=”Sex” AND value=”M”] Basically, I want to select the input element that has the attribute name=”Sex” as well as the attribute value=”M”: <input type=”radio” name=”Sex” value=”M” /> Elements such as the following should not be selected: <input type=”radio” name=”Sex” value=”F” /> 5 Answers 5
Do you know if there is a built-in function to build a dictionary from an arbitrary object? I’d like to do something like this: >>> class Foo: … bar=”hello” … baz = ‘world’ … >>> f = Foo() >>> props(f) { ‘bar’ : ‘hello’, ‘baz’ : ‘world’ } NOTE: It should not include methods. Only … Read more
Ruby has this handy and convenient way to share instance variables by using keys like attr_accessor :var attr_reader :var attr_writer :var Why would I choose attr_reader or attr_writer if I could simply use attr_accessor? Is there something like performance (which I doubt)? I guess there is a reason, otherwise they wouldn’t have made such keys. … Read more