[Python-3000] PEP for Metaclasses in Python 3000

[Nick Coghlan]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> If they're passed to both, then the signatures become
> 
>    metaclass.__prepare__(name, bases, **kwargs)
>    metaclass(name, bases, body, **kwargs)
> 
> BTW, I don't think I like the name "__prepare__" much
> more than "__metacreate__". It seems just as wooly.
> What's being prepared? How? What for?

__namespace__ and __instancedict__ are the most literally descriptive 
names that have occurred to me (after all, the role of the method is to 
return the locals() dictionary for the creation of a class).

That said, __new__ & __init__ could also be said to be somewhat woolly 
if you didn't already know what they did - preparing a namespace for 
evaluation of a class body shouldn't be hard to remember once someone 
has learned what the term is referring to.

If Guido decides he likes __prepare__, I can certainly live with it :) 
(I actually quite like the connotation that what the method returns has 
been prepared for something, but isn't really finished yet)

Cheers,
Nick.


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