I’m trying to dynamically create subclasses in Python with type: and here’s what I see in the output: Obviously, this was not my intention. Two questions in that respect: How does Python handles multiple classes with identical names? What is a pythonic way to handle it? Of course, I can look up the name in the already existing subclasses, but
Tag: metaprogramming
Why is `object` an instance of `type` and `type` an instance of `object`?
I am a little bit confused about the object and type classes in Python 3. Maybe someone can clear up my confusion or provide some additional information. My current understanding is that every class (except object) inherits from a base class called object. But every class (including object) is also an instance of the class type, which is an instance
How to pass arguments to the metaclass from the class definition?
I’m trying to dynamically generate classes in python 2.7, and am wondering if you can easily pass arguments to the metaclass from the class object. I’ve read this post, which is awesome, but doesn’t quite answer the question. at the moment I am doing: but this requires me to do the following Is there a cleaner way of doing this?
Python dictionary from an object’s fields
Do you know if there is a built-in function to build a dictionary from an arbitrary object? I’d like to do something like this: NOTE: It should not include methods. Only fields. Answer Note that best practice in Python 2.7 is to use new-style classes (not needed with Python 3), i.e. Also, there’s a difference between an ‘object’ and a