Generic Python

[Kragen Sitaker]

Uwe Mayer <Uwe.Mayer at ifib.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:
> The problem is that I've got a base class and there should be many
> subclasses of it. Each subclass just overwriting an output method and
> serving as a template: 
> ...
> Is there another way to solve this problem?

Several people have offered ways to do this with metaclasses or
run-time code generation with exec, but I agree with Michael Chermside
that you should use a factory function or just override the output
method on individual instances instead.