Alex Martelli wrote: > The best way to make classes on the fly is generally to call the > metaclass with suitable parameters (just like, the best way to make > instances of any type is generally to call that type): > > derived = type(base)('derived', (base,), {'__doc__': 'zipp'})
and George Sakkis said something similar. Thanks, both of you. As I expected, there was a much better way than my clumsy way. Anyway, this took me to section 3.3.3 in the reference manual, and that will help me further. Thanks again. Back to the keyboard! /MiO -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list