[Python-Dev] advice needed: best approach to enabling "metamodules"?

[Mark Shannon]

On 29/11/14 19:37, Nathaniel Smith wrote:

[snip]

> - The "new module" object has to be a subtype of ModuleType, b/c there
> are lots of places that do isinstance(x, ModuleType) checks (notably

It has to be a *subtype* is does not need to be a *subclass*

>>> class M:
...    __class__ = ModuleType
...
>>> isinstance(M(), ModuleType)
True

Cheers,
Mark.