subclass-register 1.0.0

Automatically log all new subclasses of a specified base class.

Motivation

This library implements a simple clas decorator that you can apply to a base class. This decorator then hooks into the way the decorated class is subclassed, adding all new subclasses to a dictionary whose keys are class names and values are the classes themselves.

The motivation for this project was to autogenerate deep learning models from pure JSON files, thus ensuring reproducibility of the results. I do, however, think that it is ideal for any kind of codebase where we want to generate safe code from configuration files.

Installation instructions

The subclass register can be installed with pip:

pip install subclass-register

by cloning this repo and running setup.py

git clone https:\\github.com\yngvem\subclass-register
cd subclass-register
python setup.py

or by simply downloading the src\subclass_register\subclass_register.py file and the LISENCE file into your project.

Example

Here is a basic example of how to use the subclass register.

from subclass_register import SubclassRegister


register = SubclassRegister('car')

@register.link_base
class BaseCar:
    pass

class SUV(BaseCar):
    def __init__(self, horse_powers):
        self.horse_powers = horse_powers

suv = register['SUV'](horse_powers = 50)