[Python-Dev] Python 3, new-style classes and __class__

[Michael Foord]

On 19/11/2011 22:06, Vinay Sajip wrote:
> I was looking through the errors which occur when running the test suite of
> Django's py3k branch under Python 3, and one particular set of errors caught my
> eye which is unrelated to the bytes/str dance. These errors occur in some Django
> utility code, which supplies a SimpleLazyObject (new-style) class [1]. This
> implements a proxy, which is initialised using a callable. The callable returns
> the object to be wrapped, and it's called when needed to set up the wrapped
> instance.
>
> The SimpleLazyObject needs to pretend to be the class of the wrapped object,
> e.g. for equality tests. This pretending is done by declaring __class__ as a
> property in SimpleLazyObject which fetches and returns the __class__ attribute
> of the wrapped object. This approach doesn't work in Python 3, however: the
> property named __class__ doesn't show up in the class dict of SimpleLazyObject,
> and moreover, there are restrictions on what you can set __class__ to - e.g.
> Python complains if you try and set a __class__ attribute on the instance to
> anything other than a new-style class.
>
> What's the simplest way in Python 3 of implementing the equivalent approach to
> pretending to be a different class? Any pointers appreciated.
That works fine in Python 3 (mock.Mock does it):

 >>> class Foo(object):
...  @property
...  def __class__(self):
...   return int
...
 >>> a = Foo()
 >>> isinstance(a, int)
True
 >>> a.__class__
<class 'int'>

There must be something else going on here.

All the best,

Michael Foord

>
> Thanks and regards,
>
>
> Vinay Sajip
>
> [1] http://goo.gl/1Jlbj
>
>
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