"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
Indeed -- and I have a question there: why did you have to implement this as meta-type ?
MAL, please do read the patch discussion first, at
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=305470&func=detail&aid=462296
The discussion on SF doesn't really answer my question. What Nick did is fascinating: he reused the type object implementation to mimic a sequence ! That's cool, but looks like an awfully tricky way of doing something straight forward such as sub-classing the tuple type to extend it with an additional dictionary. So the question remains: why did Nick *have* to implement this as meta-type ? BTW, Nick's stuff is a nice intro to the more complicated capabilities of the new type system and I think people can learn a lot from it. I certainly want to learn from it, because I haven't really interned the details behind all the new C type slots yet. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH ______________________________________________________________________ Consulting & Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.lemburg.com/python/