Changing the class of an instance

[david_ullrich at my-deja.com]

In article <8ki9bf$2pg3$1 at pc-news.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>,
  richard at cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:
> Is it legal (it seems to work) to change the class of an object by
> assigning to its __class__ attribute?  In particular for the case
where
> the new class is a subclass of the old.
>
> I'm not looking for an argument (not even the five minute one) about
> whether it's a good idea, just whether it's legal.

    I can't imagine there being any _argument_ about whether
it's a good idea...

    If you said what you were trying to do someone would show
you how to do it without trying to change the class of an
instance. (Or not, but I can't imagine what it could be
that would require this.)

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