inline metaclasses

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <mailman.7745.1151983064.27775.python-list at python.org>, K.S.Sreeram
wrote:

> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
>> But why use a metaclass?  If the meta class is only applied to *one*
>> class, can't you do at class level whatever the metaclass is doing!?
> 
> The very fact that you can put a loop inside __metaclass__ may be reason
> enough for a one-off metaclass.

Ah, it's not the loop but the access to the `dict`!  You can write loops
at class level too but I haven't found a way to access `X`s `__dict__`
because `X` does not exist at this point.

> Here's a contrived example:
> 
> class X :
>     def __metaclass__( name, bases, dict ) :
>         for k,v in dict.items() :
>             if k.startswith('get_') :
>                 dict[ k[4:].upper() ] = property( v )
>         return type( name, bases, dict )
> 
>     def get_a( self ) :
>         ...
> 
>     def get_b( self ) :
>         ...
> 
> 
> o = X()
> print o.A
> print o.B

BTW, if that's what gangesmaster is after then it seem to work already. 
Put ``(object)`` after ``X`` and return something, say 'a' and 'b', in the
getters and the example prints 'a' and 'b'.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch