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Cached class (was: Could an object delegate itself into another?)

Jul 5th, 2000 10:01
Nathan Wallace, Hans Nowak, Snippet 198, Fred L. Drake

"""
Packages: oop
"""
"""
 > But yet, I wonder.  Could an object really delegates itself into
 > another?  For example, is there some way by which a newly created
 > object could soon check, probably within __init__, if a similar copy
 > has already been registered?  If one similar object is found, this
 A truely Vile Hack ;-)
"""
class C: pass
c1 = C()
c2 = C()
c2.__dict__ = c1.__dict__
c1.foo = "bar"
print c2.foo
# 'bar'
"""
Not to be used in real code!
"""