I'm wondering if there's a way in python to cause __init__ to return a class
other than the one initially specified. My use case is that I'd like to have a
superclass that's capable of generating an instance of a random subclass.
I've tried both returning the subclass (as I would when overloading an
operator) but I get the complaint that __init__ wants to return None instead of
a type.
The other thing I tried was overwriting 'self' while inside __init__ but that
doesn't seem to work either.
class Parent(object):
def __init__(self, foo):
if foo == True:
self = Child(foo)
class Child(Parent):
def __init__(self, foo):
pass
Is there a way to do this?
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