Suggestions for python 2

[The Blue Wizard]

Guido van Rossum <guido at CNRI.Reston.VA.US> wrote in article
<200001190040.TAA18277 at eric.cnri.reston.va.us>...
> Eddy,
> 
> Have you read my (very old) metaclasses article?
> 
> It seems to me that where you write
> 
> > Body Sun:
> >     """The Sun: the star at the heart of the solar system."""
> >     type = 'G2 V'
> >     magnitude = 4.79
> >     aliases = 'Sol',
> 
> I would write
> 
> class Sun(Body):
>     """The Sun: the star at the heart of the solar system."""
>     type = 'G2 V'
>     magnitude = 4.79
>     aliases = 'Sol',
> 
> I.e. only the syntax at the top is slightly different, the rest is the
> same.  The metaclass is defined in a similar way too; where you define
> __call__(*bases, **what), I define __init__(name, bases, what).
> 
> There are some details that are different, but in general it seems
> that your proposal is of similar power.  Have you considered this?
> 
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

Um...out of curiosity, why create a *class* for specific objects (e.g. Sun)
rather than
making instances?  But I can see the syntactical niceties here, almost as
if it is a
mix of class and instance stuff.  Something to think about.

Cheers,

The Blue Wizard