Dynamic class construction?

[Adrian Eyre]

> def newClass(name, ops, superclass):
> 	class NewClass(superclass):
> 		pass
> 	for op in ops.keys():
> 		setattr(NewClass, op, ops[op])
> 	NewClass.__name__ = name
> 	return NewClass
> 
> def anOp(self):
> 	return 'This is an instance of the class %s' % \
> 		self.__class__.__name__
> 
> someOps={'__str__':anOp}
> G=newClass('G', someOps, Group) # Group defined elsewhere
> print G
> <class __main__.G at f92a8>

There's already a module which does this...

import new

def anOp(self):
	return 'This is an instance of the class %s' % \
		self.__class__.__name__

someOps={'__str__':anOp}
G=new.classobj('G', (Group,), someOps) # Group defined elsewhere

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