Create classes at runtnime

Marc Aymerich glicerinu at gmail.com
Fri Feb 4 14:17:39 EST 2011


Hi!
I need to create a pretty complex class at runtime. something like
this one:

(note: "...." means that the number of attributes can be variable)

class VirtualUserLimitForm(ModelForm):
    swap_limit = forms.CharField(max_length=100,
initial=monitor1.default_limit)
    memory_limit = forms.CharField(max_length=100,
initial=monitor2.default_limit)
    ...

    class Meta:
        model = model

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(VirtualUserLimitForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        if 'instance' in kwargs:
            self.fields['swap_limit'].initial =
kwargs['instance'].monitoring.filter(monitor=monitor1)[0].current
            self.fields['memory_limit'].initial =
kwargs['instance'].monitoring.filter(monitor=monitor2)[0].current
            ...

I can generate all the needed code as string and then use exec(), but
it seems ugly to me. I'm wondering if there is another way more
elegant to do that?  metaclasses maybe? What is your recommendation?

Thanks!!



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