Should I write a book on Python Metaprogramming ?

Irmen de Jong irmen at -NOSPAM-REMOVETHIS-xs4all.nl
Mon May 5 19:33:08 EDT 2003


Paul Rubin wrote:
> "andrew cooke" <andrew at acooke.org> writes:
> 
>>Personally, I would be interested in something that covered the more
>>obscure / newer parts of Python.  I understand that you can generate
>>bytecode dyanmically, for example.  Also, what's the difference between
>>old + new style classes (including implementation)?  What do the various
>>special __ methods do etc.
> 
> 
> That belongs in the Python documentation, not in some book you have to
> buy separately!!!

While I second you that this should be part of the regular docs,
a book could describe possible use cases for these advanced
concepts, discuss their pros/cons etc. in more detail.


-Irmen





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