Changing class membership

[Lee, Rick]

I have a similar design problem and was thinking about changing a class
instance's __class__ attribute momentarily (ie., in one thread of that
instance's execution), and then changing it back.

What are its gotcha's?

Obvious ones:

- the new instance class's method may be referring to an object name that
is not in the original instance's name space.

Rick Lee

Alex wrote:

> > How do i most elegantly let an object switch its class membership?
>
> The class is specified by the __class__ attribute.  Use it carefully --
> doing this a lot can make things really confusing.
>
> Alex.
>
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