I didn't explain my problem, chose a terrible example. This is more what I'm trying to do:
Basically the subclass I want to use is based on some of the data I extract from a blob of data. If I use a function to extract the data before I create the objects, then I need to do a bunch of assignments afterwards.
Unfortunately, it's still very contrived, and the names don't give any suggestion as to what you're trying to achieve. Can you improve on that?class ThingyTypeA: def __init__(self): # do some further extraction specific to type A further_extract() class ThingyTypeB: def __init__(self): # do some further extraction specific to type B further_extract()Perhaps you want those classes to inherit from your base class. Have you done the Python tutorial? It covers inheritance and how to use it.
Yes, I have done subclasing before, and yes ThingyTypeA and B should be subclassing Thingy
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