Dynamic class construction?

[David C. Ullrich]

Adrian Eyre wrote:

> [...]
>
> 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

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

    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 guess, but I can't find any more about it in
the docs (or I'm not looking in the right place? It's not in the
"module index", I don't find any interesting files contaning
the text "classobj", etc.)

    This means I got the docs-for-weenies and it's documented
in the manly version, or what?


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