Paul McGuire wrote:
> I have some places in pyparsing where I've found that the most
> straightforward way to adjust an instance's behavior is to change its class.
Hooray ! You've just (re)discovered the state pattern... for which the
most stupid simple implementation in Python is to :
>(snip) assigning to self.__class__, (snip)
!-)
>
> Any comments on this practice?
It can be very confusing for newbies and peoples having no experience
with *dynamic* languages, and I guess control-freaks and
static-typing-addicts would runaway screaming. But I like it anyway !-)
> Is this intended capability for Python
> objects,
AFAIK, yes.
> or am I taking advantage of a fortuitous accident, which may get
> undone at a future time?
It's certainly not a fortuitous accident.
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