Ron Garret wrote:
>
> I need to dynamically generate new types at run time. I can do this in
> two ways. I can use the "type" constructor, or I can generate a "class"
> statement as a string and feed that to the exec function. The former
> technique is much cleaner all else being equal, but I want to be able to
> specify the __slots__ class variable for these new types, and it seems
> that to do that I need to use the latter method. Is that true? Is it
> really impossible to specify __slots__ using the "type" constructor?
This simple testscript
class Meta(type):
def __init__(*args):
print args
return type(*args[1:])
class Foo(object):
__metaclass__ = Meta
__slots__ = "foo", "bar"
Foo()
shows that __slots__ is just a part of the type's dict. So you can simply
specify it.
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Regards,
Diez B. Roggisch
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