cause __init__ to return a different class?

[Chris Rebert]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Matthew Pounsett
<matt.pounsett at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm wondering if there's a way in python to cause __init__ to return a class other than the one initially specified.  My use case is that I'd like to have a superclass that's capable of generating an instance of a random subclass.
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> Is there a way to do this?

Override __new__() instead:
http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#object.__new__

Cheers,
Chris