Logically/Selectively Sub Class?

[xkenneth]

On Mar 9, 4:38 pm, "Diez B. Roggisch" <de... at nospam.web.de> wrote:
> xkenneth schrieb:
>
> > Might be a silly question, but is it possible to selectively subclass,
> > IE subclass is a supporting module is present and not otherwise.
>
> Yes, something like this should work
>
> class Foo(some, base, classes)
>     pass
>
> if condition:
>     Temp = Foo
>     class Foo(Temp, otherclass): pass
>
> Alternatively, you can use the type-function to create classes explicit
> with a list of base-classes.
>
> However it smells after bad design... what's your actual usecase?
>
> Diez

Yeah, it's really a non-issue, just more a curiosity. I'm using ZODB
for a lot of my stuff now, and I need my objects to be persistent,
however there might be a case where my classes could be used in a non-
persistent manner. I'll just have ZODB as a requirement for my
package.

Regards,
Kenneth Miller