Changing the class of an instance

[Paul Prescod]

Richard Tobin wrote:
> 
> 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.

It language reference doesn't say. I think you're on your own but I
wouldn't expect it to break soon. I also wouldn't expect it to work in
JPython or maybe even Zope.

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