getting a reference to a class inside its definition

[dan]

Pearu Peterson wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, dan wrote:
> 
>> class SomeClass:
>>     pass
>> SomeClass.clsref = SomeClass
> 
> If it will be used as
> 
>>>> SomeClass().clsref
> 
> then it is equivalent to
> 
>>>> SomeClass().__class__
> 
> So, why would you want .clsref attribute if .__class__ is
> available already?
> 
> Pearu

So my question is why answer my question? ;)

I'm building a factory class of other classes. One of the factories is a 
factory of itself... It's also a baseclass, which is why I need it to be an 
attribute so it can be overloaded later. I hope this satisfies your 
curiosity :)

Dan