Frederic Rentsch wrote: > If I derive a class from another one because I need a few extra > features, is there a way to promote the base class to the derived one > without having to make copies of all attributes? > > class Derived (Base): > def __init__ (self, base_object): > # ( copy all attributes ) > ... > > This looks expensive. Moreover __init__ () may not be available if it > needs to to something else.
base_instance = Base(...) base_instance.__class__ = Derived Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
