Is there a way to specify a superclass at runtime?

[Mick Krippendorf]

Chris Colbert schrieb:
> 
> SIMULATION = False
> 
> class SimController(object):
>     "do sim stuff here"
> 
> class RealController(object):
>     " do real stuff here"
> 
> class Controller(SuperKlass):
>     pass
> 
> 
> so if SIMULATION == False I want to be able to instance a Controller
> object that inherits from RealController and vice-versa.

How about:

SIMULATION = True

class Controller(object):
    def __new__(cls):
        if SIMULATION:
            return SimController()
        else:
            return RealController()

class SimController(object):
    pass

class RealController(object):
    pass

print Controller()


But my preferred solution (in case SIMULATION never changes during
runtime) would be:


class SimController(object):
    pass

class RealController(object):
    pass

if SIMULATION:
    Controller = SimController
else:
    Controller = RealController

print Controller()


Regards,
Mick.