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From: Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 16:17:05 +0100
Subject: Re: class factory question
To: Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
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On 26 June 2013 15:46, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
> The clean way to
> cope with the situation is to use a dict:
>
> classnames = ["Vspace", ...]
> classes = {name: type(name, ...) for name in classnames}
>
> Then you can access the Vspace class with
>
> classes["Vspace"]
>
> If that is inconvenient for your usecase you can alternatively update the
> global (module) namespace:
>
> globals().update((name, type(name, ...) for name in classnames)
>
> For example:
>
>>>> class A(object): pass
> ...
>>>> globals().update((n, type(n, (A,), {})) for n in ["Beta", "Gamma"])
>>>> Beta
> <class '__main__.Beta'>
>>>> issubclass(Beta, A)
> True

I would say if a dict isn't good, there are still some cases where you
might not want to use globals.

I _might_ do:

import sys
from types import ModuleType

# As before
newclasses = ['Vspace', 'Boldpath', "and so on", "and yes, these all
become variables"]
little_classes = {name: type(name, (int,), {}) for name in newclasses}

# Make a module
module_for_little_classes = ModuleType("module_for_little_classes",
"All the things")
module_for_little_classes.__dict__.update(little_classes)

# Hack it in there!
sys.modules["module_for_little_classes"] = module_for_little_classes

# Now we can undo all
import module_for_little_classes as mlc
mlc.Vspace
mlc.Boldpath
...

# And undo all our hard work avoiding globals():
from module_for_little_classes import *
Vspace
Boldpath


So, why avoid globals()?
1) Linters don't like globals()
2) Urm... it's ugly?
3) Ur.......