I have a class ``A`` that is intentionally incomplete: it has methods that refer to class variables that do not exist. The class ``A`` has several complicated methods, a number of which reference the "missing" class variables. Obviously, I do not directly use ``A``.
I have a class factory ``f``` that subclasses ``A`` *only* in order to define the class variables. The motivation/problem: I did this because I need many versions of class ``A``, which differ only in the class variables, which are not known until run time. Q: On the face of it, did I pick a reasonable solution to my problem? If so is this a standard pattern? If not, can you mention a better approach? My solution is working for me, but the class ``A`` is bugging me, because of the odd (to me) way in which it is incomplete. Obviously, I'm not a computer science type ... Thanks, Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
