Changing the class of an instance

[Richard Tobin]

Is it legal (it seems to work) to change the class of an object by
assigning to its __class__ attribute?  In particular for the case where
the new class is a subclass of the old.

I'm not looking for an argument (not even the five minute one) about
whether it's a good idea, just whether it's legal.

-- Richard

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