Should proxy objects lie about their class name?

[Robin Becker]

Steven Bethard wrote:
.......
> The Python 3 machinery allows *other* classes to lie about whether or 
> not your object is an instance or subclass of them, without requiring 
> them to set your __class__ or __bases__.  So, for example, you can 
> create a class ``Integer`` and make ``issubclass(int, Integer)`` true. 
> For more information see:
> 
>      http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3119/
> 
> STeVe

That will allow me to magically create instances which claim to be instances of 
working_class even though they're actually instances of reactionary_class thus 
turning all my modules into instances of class_war :)
-- 
Robin Becker