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Re: class factory question

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From Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com>
Date 2013-06-27 00:20 +0100
Subject Re: class factory question
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On 26 June 2013 16:40, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
> Joshua Landau wrote:
>
>> 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:
>
>> # Make a module
>> module_for_little_classes = ModuleType("module_for_little_classes",
>> "All the things")
>> module_for_little_classes.__dict__.update(little_classes)
>
> Hm, from within module_for_little_classes that is globals(). To illustrate:
>
>>>> import __main__ as main
>>>> globals() is main.__dict__
> True

Yes, that's true - but the point wasn't not to use "globals the
function", but not to use *this* global scope.

> Also, I'd spell module.__dict__ vars(module).

Again, good catch. Definitely that.

> That said I agree that it's a good idea to use a dedicated module (not
> necessarily created on the fly) for those dynamically generated classes.

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class factory question Tim <jtim.arnold@gmail.com> - 2013-06-26 06:09 -0700
  Re: class factory question Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-06-26 15:39 +0200
    Re: class factory question Tim <jtim.arnold@gmail.com> - 2013-06-26 07:08 -0700
      Re: class factory question Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-06-26 16:46 +0200
        Re: class factory question Tim <jtim.arnold@gmail.com> - 2013-06-26 08:05 -0700
      Re: class factory question Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-06-26 16:17 +0100
      Re: class factory question Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-06-26 17:40 +0200
      Re: class factory question Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-06-27 00:20 +0100
  Re: class factory question Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-06-27 00:35 +0100
  Re: class factory question Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-06-27 14:16 +0100
    Re: class factory question Tim <jtim.arnold@gmail.com> - 2013-06-27 06:37 -0700
      Re: class factory question Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-06-27 09:48 -0400
        Re: class factory question Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2013-06-27 17:56 +0200
          Re: class factory question Tim <jtim.arnold@gmail.com> - 2013-06-27 09:40 -0700

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