[Python-Dev] type(obj) vs. obj.class (original) (raw)
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Sun Oct 18 23:10:07 EDT 2015
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Assigning class is a precarious stunt (look at the implementation, it requires lots of checks for various things like slots and implementation-specific special cases). The gesture that looks like "overriding a method" is merely setting a new instance attribute that hides the method, and quite tame in comparison.
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