[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] peps: Update 422 based on python-dev feedback

Daniel Urban urban.dani+py at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 17:45:29 CEST 2012


On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:08 PM, nick.coghlan <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
> -* If the metaclass hint refers to an instance of ``type``, then it is
> +* If the metaclass hint refers to a subclass of ``type``, then it is
>   considered as a candidate metaclass along with the metaclasses of all of
>   the parents of the class being defined. If a more appropriate metaclass is
>   found amongst the candidates, then it will be used instead of the one

I think here "instance" was correct (see
http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Lib/types.py#l76 and
http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/cedc68440a67/Python/bltinmodule.c#l90).


Daniel


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