Changing base class of a big hierarchy

[John J. Lee]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:

> John J. Lee wrote:
[...]
> > How would you go about it?
> 
> Well, you could:
>   -- import the original FtNode (say "import FtNode")
>   -- save xxx = sys.modules['FtNode']
>   -- patch sys.modules['FtNode'] = yourhackedmodule
>   -- do the deed
>   -- restore sys.modules['FtNode'] = xxx
[...]

Ick.  I don't understand that, and I don't think I want to.  :-)

I'll stick with your class-mapping idea, I think.

Thanks all.


John