[Python-Dev] PEP 468
Eric Snow
ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Fri Jun 10 12:49:10 EDT 2016
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:41 PM, <zreed at fastmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any further thoughts on including this in 3.6?
I don't have any plans and I don't know of anyone willing to champion
the PEP for 3.6. Note that the implementation itself shouldn't take
very long.
> Similar to the
> recent discussion on OrderedDict namespaces for metaclasses, this would
> simplify / enable a number of type factory use cases where proper
> metaclasses are overkill. This feature would also be quite nice in say
> pandas where the (currently unspecified) field order used in the
> definition of frames is preserved in user-visible displays.
Good point. One weakness of the PEP has been sufficient
justification. The greater number of compelling use cases, the
better. So thanks! :)
-eric
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