Down casting Python objects

[Andrey Fedorov]

So I have `x', a instance of class `Foo'. I also have class `Bar', a class
extending `Foo' with a couple of methods. I'd like to "down cast" x as
efficiently as possible. Is it OK to just set `x.__class__ = Bar' and expect
things to work OK in all major versions of CPython?
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