why * is not like unquote (scheme)

[Alex Martelli]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> Amir Hadar wrote:
>> 
>> I'me tring to create a factory function that create a class as follow:
>> 
>> def CreatePreviewFrame(*addins):
>>     class tmp(cPreviewFrame,*addins):
>>         pass
>>     return tmp
   ,,,
> Maybe this is a rare case where you'll need to use exec to
> get the job done right.

No!  Module new is what you need:

import new
def CreatePreviewFrame(*addins):
    return new.classobj( 'tmp', (cPreviewFrame)+addins, {} )


Alex