[Python-Dev] Adding types.build_class for 3.3

[Nick Coghlan]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Mark Shannon <mark at hotpy.org> wrote:
> To avoid this problem, type.define needs to be an overriding descriptor
> such as a property (a PyGetSetDef in C).
> Alternatively, just make 'define' a non-descriptor.
> It would unusual (unique?) to have a builtin-function (rather than a
> method-descriptor) bound to a class, but I can't see any fundamental reason
> not to.

Oh, I see what you mean now. I hadn't fully thought through the
implications of the static method being accessible through all
instances of type, and that really doesn't seem like a good outcome.
Exposing it through the types module as an ordinary builtin function
is starting to sound a lot more attractive at this point.

Cheers,
Nick.

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