Does Python have something like anonymous inner classes of Java?

Question

In Java you can define a new class inline using anonymous inner classes. This is useful when you need to rewrite only a single method of the class.

Suppose that you

Answer 1

Python doesn't support this directly (anonymous classes) but because of its terse syntax it isn't really necessary:

class MyOptionParser(OptionParser):
    def exit(self, status=0, msg=None):
        # body of method

p = MyOptionParser()

The only downside is you add MyOptionParser to your namespace, but as John Fouhy pointed out, you can hide that inside a function if you are going to do it multiple times.