Create classes at runtnime

Ian ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 20:19:23 EST 2011


On Feb 4, 5:49 pm, Steven D'Aprano <steve
+comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Just add in the class attributes you want after creating the class.
>
> class VirtualUserLimitForm(ModelForm):
>     pass
>
> f = forms.CharField  # alias for brevity
> for name, value in [
>     ('swap_limit', f(max_length=100, initial=monitor1.default_limit)),
>     ('memory_limit', f(max_length=100, initial=monitor2.default_limit)),
>     ('spam', 'spam spam spam spam'),
>     ('eggs', 'fried sunny side up'),
>     ]:
>     setattr(VirtualUserLimitForm, name, value)

This would probably cause some problems with the Django metaclass.  It
inspects the class dictionary for fields at the time the class in
constructed, and so it would miss any fields added after construction
time.



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