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Cannot subclass due to bad metaclass magic

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It’s impossible to inherit from the Faker class due to bad metaclass magic;

class Faker2(Faker):
    pass

  File "/vagrant/server/app/api/tests.py", line 44, in <module>
    class Faker2(Faker):
TypeError: Error when calling the metaclass bases
    first argument must be callable

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foxxcommented, May 18, 2015

There are some more problems, again due to the way this library has been constructed.

The following is an instruction from the README, which fails to work;

>>> from faker.providers import BaseProvider
ImportError: No module named providers

There is far too much import abuse and magic going on, this project is a good idea but the implementation is very broken. Are there any plans to re-structure this in a pythonic way?

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github-actions[bot]commented, Jul 14, 2022

This issue was closed because it has been inactive for 14 days since being marked as stale.

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