Dynamically choosing class to inherit from

Question

My Python knowledge is limited, I need some help on the following situation.

Assume that I have two classes A and B, is it possible to do something like the following (conceptually) in Python:

import os if os.name == 'nt':     class newClass(A):        # class body else:    class newClass(B):        # class body 

So the problem is that I would like to create a class newClass such that it will inherit from different base classes based on platform difference, is this possible to do in Python? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use a conditional expression:

class newClass(A if os.name == 'nt' else B):     ...