[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] peps: PEP 422 rewrite to present an idea that a) isn't crazy and b) it turns out

[Eric Snow]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:40 AM, nick.coghlan <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
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Would it be worth also (briefly) rehashing why the class instance
couldn't be created before the class body is executed*?  It might seem
like a viable alternative if you haven't looked at how classes get
created.

-eric


* i.e. meta.__new__() would have to be called before the class body is
executed for the class to exist during that execution.  Perhaps in an
alternate universe classes get created like modules do...