Metaclasses - magic functions
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Dec 20 18:56:10 EST 2016
On 12/20/2016 03:26 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> ... The latter is interesting mostly because it allows you to set the
> __slots__ or do something interesting with the __prepare__ hook
> (although the only interesting thing I've ever seen done with
> __prepare__ is to use an OrderedDict to preserve the the definition
> order of the class attributes; now that Python 3.6 does this by default
> it's probably obsolete).
__prepare__ is not obsolete. Enum uses it to set a custom dictionary which tracks the new members, etc.
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~Ethan~
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