On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:15:59 -0800, Stodge wrote: > Does anyone know of a library to generate class definitions in memory, > at runtime, from XSD or JSON? I know about PyXB, generateDS and some > others, but they all rely on generating python source files at the > command line, and then using those to parse XML.
You don't need a library to generate classes. If the type() function is called with 3 arguments, it creates and returns a new class. The first argument is the name of the class, the second argument a tuple of base classes, the third argument is the class' dictionary. E.g.: class Foo(Bar, Baz): def __init__(self): pass could be written as: def foo_init(self): pass Foo = type('Foo', (Bar, Baz), {'__init__': foo_init}) If you want to generate the function bodies from the contents of the JSON or XML file, use exec(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list