On Jan 24, 12:35 pm, William Pursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure that describes the method well. Basically, you can > instantiate an object A of class Foo, and later change A to be an > object of class Bar. Does Python support this type of flexibility? > As I stated above, I've been away from Python for awhile now, and am a > bit rusty, but it seems that slots or "new style" objects might > provide this type of behavior. The ability to have an object change > class is certainly (to me) a novel idea. Can I do it in Python?
Short answer: yes, easily. Long answer: observe. >>> class Foo(object): ... def foo(self): print "Foo.foo" ... >>> class Bar(object): ... def foo(self): print "Bar.foo" ... >>> a = Foo() >>> a.__class__ = Bar >>> a.foo() Bar.foo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
