properties + types, implementing meta-class desciptors elegantly?

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Aahz wrote:

>In article <mailman.1058654317.6488.python-list at python.org>,
>Mike C. Fletcher <mcfletch at rogers.com> wrote:
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>>Nope, I'm trying to make meta-classes which have rich properties.  The 
>>particular project is a plug-in system, where the classes (the 
>>metaclass-instances) want to have all sorts of rich metadata associated 
>>with them in a way which meshes with the rest of the system (i.e. using 
>>a descriptor-based introspection mechanism).
>>...
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>Keeping in mind that I'm really not following this discussion all that
>closely (because metaclasses give me headaches), are you trying to make
>a *metaclass* that has properties or a *metaclass instance* (i.e. a
>class) that has properties?
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Just the meta-class instances (classes).  Wasn't sufficiently precise in 
my description, the properties are normally declared in the meta-class, 
but they are actually properties of the meta-class instances.

Sorry about that,
Mike

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