Because there is no way to cast a object in Python, I make a method which do new a child class and copy values from a parental object.
usage
# cast method def cast(child_class, parental_obj): child_obj = child_class() for attr_name in parental_obj.__dict__: setattr(child_obj, attr_name, getattr(parental_obj, attr_name)) return child_obj class ParentalClass(): parental_attr = "" class ChildClass(ParentalClass): child_attr = "" parental_object = ParentalClass() parental_object.parental_attr = "hello" # usage child_object = cast(ChildClass, parental_object) print(child_object.parental_attr)
I considered the way to cast a parent object by __init__ method and hope it work like below natulally...
child_object = ChildClass(parent_object)
But this is bad for two reasons.
1) We have to define __init__ method for each class.
2) We wouldn't able to use __init__ method for a original purpose. (e.g. We cannot apply it for a class which inherited a models.Model class in Django.
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