[Python-Dev] PEP 3000 and new style classes

Lisandro Dalcin dalcinl at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 18:56:07 CEST 2005


On 9/8/05, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> 
> You can already do
> 
> __metaclass__ = type
> 
> within each module
> 

Yes, you are right. But this way, you are making explicit a behavior
that will be implicit in the future.

For example, we could also do:

    two = float(4)/float(2)

instead of 

    from __future__ import division
    two = 4/2



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