[Python-Dev] RE: Hot-To Guide for Descriptors - Nits! :-)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Jan 22 12:01:04 EST 2004


On Wed, Jan 21, 2004, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>
> I think all of the topics are best understood in terms of three groups:
> classic classes, new-style classes, and roll your own classes.  Lumping
> the latter two together won't help one bit.

While that's technically true, most of the idiomatic uses of metaclasses
that I've seen *do* result in the creation of "normal" new-style
classes.  We don't want to obscure that, either, IMO.
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