Dynamic class construction?

[Adrian Eyre]

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

> I sorta thought there might be a module that does this, but I
> couldn't find it.

You didn't look very hard :)

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-new.html

> Um, I still can't find it. It appears to be a builtin module -
> new.__doc__ says

> '     Functions to create new objects used by the interpreter.
> 
> You need to know a great deal about the interpreter to use this!',
> which is helpful,

I thought so :)

> It's not in the "module index", I don't find any interesting
> files contaning the text "classobj", etc.)

What? This one?

http://www.python.org/doc/current/modindex.html

Ah. Be aware this module was only introduced in 1.5.2 IIRC.

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