return an object of a different class

[Piet van Oostrum]

Richard Thomas <chardster at gmail.com> writes:

> If you don't want to use a factory function I believe you can do this:
>
> class MyNumber(object):
>     def __new__(cls, n):
>         if n <= 100:
>             cls = SmallNumbers
>         else:
>             cls = BigNumbers
>         return object.__new__(cls, n)

But you have to be aware that the initializers are not called in this way.

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