Is there a way to specify a superclass at runtime?

[Chris Colbert]

I suppose i can just move the SIMULATION flag to another module, and
then import it and check it before intstantiation.

So, the arg parser will have to set the flag before any other
processing begins...

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Chris Colbert <sccolbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> I dont think so, because that would require logic outside of the
> controller class to determine which controller to instantiate.
>
> My whole purpose for Controller is to encapsulate this logic.
>
> So, if the data should be simulated, then i just need to pass
> -simulate True as a command line argument, and the controller takes
> care of it...
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Richard Brodie <R.Brodie at rl.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> "Chris Colbert" <sccolbert at gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:mailman.868.1254748945.2807.python-list at python.org...
>>
>>> I am trying to abstract this machinery in a single class called
>>> Controller which I want to inherit from either SimController or
>>> RealController based on whether a module level flag SIMULATION is set
>>> to True or False.
>>
>> At first sight, that seems kind of odd. Wouldn't it be simpler to have
>> SimController and RealController inherit from Controller?
>>
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