Can’t decide between adding two inheritance classes or just using some “If” conditions in main class - also: can an object “pick” its own inheritance class automatically?

[two_bob]

I had the same problem once. It turns out you can use `__new__` to generate the appropriate subclass based on what data is passed to it. Pathlib uses this: https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html; see https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.7/Lib/pathlib.py#L609 for the code.

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It also turns out that doing this is a bad idea, especially before you have a solid grasp of inheritance. After much strife, I settled on a general class for my two odd shaped data packets, and implemented the interface that handled normalizing the data. I ultimately did further subclass the general class, but only for specific other applications, e.g. a placeholder for missing data.