meta-class troubles

[Xavier Ho]

Actually, scrape what I said.

I think you need to have metaclass in the class statement, not just meta.

-Xav

On 31 August 2010 00:16, Xavier Ho <contact at xavierho.com> wrote:

> Ethan, are you trying to write the constructor in the class statement?
>
> Cheers,
> Xav
>
>
> On 31 August 2010 00:10, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>
>> Good Day!
>>
>> I am stuck... hopefully a few fresh pairs of eyes will spot what I am
>> missing.
>>
>> I have a metaclass, Traits, and two different testing files,
>> test_traits.py and tests.py.  test_traits works fine, tests generates the
>> following error:
>>
>> C:\Python31\Lib\site-packages\traits\tests>\python31\python tests.py
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "tests.py", line 4, in <module>
>>    class TraitConflict(meta=Traits, traits=(BoxPrint, BigBoxPrint)):
>> TypeError: type() takes 1 or 3 arguments
>>
>>
>> Working code from test_traits.py:
>> class DerivedClass(metaclass=Traits, traits=(TBundle1, TBundle2)):
>>    def repeat(yo, text, count):
>>        print('whatever...')
>>    def whatsit(yo, arg1):
>>        print("calling baseclass's whatsit...")
>>        print(super().whatsit(arg1))
>>
>> Failing code from tests.py:
>> class TraitConflict(meta=Traits, traits=(BoxPrint, BigBoxPrint)):
>>    def useless(yo):
>>        print("this class won't compile")
>>
>>
>> Any clues or pointers *greatly* appreciated!
>>
>> ~Ethan~
>> --
>> Traits is homegrown, the idea based on Michele Simionato's Simple Traits
>> experiment.  It was intrigueing, and I wanted to see if I could implement
>> something similar in Python 3.  Any ideas now on what to do with it will
>> also be greatly appreciated!  :)
>>  --
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>>
>
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