Elk

Elk is an object system for Python inspired by Moose. It aspires to implement the features of Moose in idiomatic Python.

Elk is written in pure Python (2.7) and there are no dependencies beyond the standard library.

Contents:

• Classes
  • Subclassing
• Attributes
  • Attribute options
  • Attribute inheritance
  • Shorthand
• Delegation
  • What is delegation?
  • Defining delegations
  • Missing attributes
• Construction
  • Where’s the constructor?
  • Object construction and attributes
  • Object construction hooks
• Method Modifiers
  • before, after and around
• Roles
  • A simple role
  • Required methods

Copyright and license

Elk is Copyright (C) 2012, 2013 Fraser Tweedale.

The Elk manual is Copyright (C) 2013 Infinity Interactive, Inc. and Copyright (C) 2013 Fraser Tweedale.

Elk is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Contributing

The Elk source code is available from https://github.com/frasertweedale/elk. Bug reports, patches, feature requests, code review and documentation are welcomed.

To contribute patches, please use git send-email or generate a pull request on GitHub. Write a well formed commit message. If your patch is nontrivial, update the copyright notice at the top of each changed file.

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page