[Tutor] best way to dynamically set class variables?

[Pablo Lucena]

I really like the idea of using Python to generate another .py file with
the dynamic definitions taken into account.

That way you separate the "hackery" into a single function or module,
document how it works, and have it also annotate the dynamically generated
python source containing the class definitions as you need them with top of
file doc-string stating "this file was dynamically generated by xxx - don't
modify by hand".

That way your code is not confusing, you isolate the trick and the
resulting source, and you have full source files with all class attributes
that developers can look at and source control, rather than looking at a
weird looking class definition. It's just a simple python file after all,
no tricks.

On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 11:50 PM Albert-Jan Roskam <sjeik_appie at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 10 Nov 2018 01:03, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
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> On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 11:34:35AM -0500, Avi Gross wrote:
> > An interesting discussion that is outside the scope of a group like this
> is
> > HOW malicious things can be done and perhaps how to avoid them.
> >
>
> Isn't the rule, simply:
>
> this_is_stupid = eval(input("please enter malicious code: "))
>
> ... and other uses range from 'code smell' to 'elegant' (where namedtuple
> is an example of the latter)
>
>
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