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

I do this in python3 usually with inner classes

class SomeSerializer():
    class __Paginator(Paginator):
        page_size = 10

    # defining it for e.g. Rest:
    pagination_class = __Paginator

    # you could also be accessing it to e.g. create an instance via method:
    def get_paginator(self):
        return self.__Paginator()

as i used double underscore, this mixes the idea of "mangling" with inner classes, from outside you can still access the inner class with SomeSerializer._SomeSerializer__Paginator, and also subclasses, but SomeSerializer.__Paginator will not work, which might or might not be your whish if you want it a bit more "anonymous".

However I suggest to use "private" notation with a single underscore, if you do not need the mangling.

In my case, all I need is a fast subclass to set some class attributes, followed up by assigning it to the class attribute of my RestSerializer class, so the double underscore would denote to "not use it at all further" and might change to no underscores, if I start reusing it elsewhere.