[Baypiggies] Frequently Argued Objections

[Alec Flett]

+1 +1 +1 +1

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Alex Martelli <aleax at google.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Shannon -jj Behrens <jjinux at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>   ...
> >> Seems very direct to me -- the class's direct attributes are kept in
> >> the class body's locals() while said body executes, and that's the
> >> dict that's passed to the metaclass's __new__ (and possibly __init__)
>    ...
> > Thanks, Alex, I didn't know about that ;)
>
> Oops -- my bad, I thought everybody needing such hyper-advanced
> knowledge had it... but just now I notice it's one of the many
> "hyper-advanced snippets" that ended up edited out of  the Nutshell to
> keep it under 800 pages -- OOPS again, sorry, my bad.
>
> Would there be interest in a Baypiggies talk on "SERIOUSLY Advanced
> Python"?  E.g. some subset of (say...):
>
> - object creation: class statement, class body, meta-classes, __new__,
> and __init__
> - attribute lookup mechanics and descriptor objects
> - introspection on objects, garbage collection, stack frames, tracebacks
> - Python bytecode inspection and alteration
>
> I need to prep (and deliver;-) a talk like this pretty soon for my
> YouTube colleagues, anyway, and it might be cool to reuse that
> preparation for a Baypiggies talk, IF there were enough Baypiggies
> people interested -- Aug or Sep, say.  Feel free to "vote" not just +
> or - on the whole concept of a "seriously advanced Python" talk, but
> also on each of the specific subjects mentioned there, or add any
> "seriously advanced" subject I omitted. (I'm not so sure there's all
> that much interest on ALTERING bytecode, for example, but, I did once
> get a specific request about it -- while as far as I've probed right
> now there doesn't seem to be as much interest in advanced uses of
> generators as I'd have thought, which is why I didn't list that
> specific subject up there...).  Feel free to answer either to the list
> or to me personally -- I'll eventually summarize to the list any
> responses that are directed to my personal mailbox.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
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