Selecting a different superclass

[Marco Mariani]

psaffrey at googlemail.com wrote:

> The problem is that IDPointSet and MicroArrayPointSet will need to
> inherit from PointSet or TraceablePointSet based on whether I'm
> handling traceable points or not. Can I select a superclass
> conditionally like this in Python? Am I trying to do something really
> evil here?
> 
> Any other bright ideas on my application also welcome.

I think you should investigate something different than subclassing, 
like a "Strategy" domain pattern or something similar.