[Python-Dev] Classes and Metaclasses in Smalltalk

[Greg Ewing]

Guido:

> Except that sometimes you really do want x.__class__.__classdict__ to
> have priority (e.g. for "guarded" attributes).

What's a "guarded" attribute?

> But the issue of backwards compatibility is a big one here

I was thinking that, while this is still in the __future__,
the __dict__ attribute would be a pseudo-dict that, by
default, behaves like the union of the old __dict__ and
the __classdict__.

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