[Python-3000] pep 3124 plans (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 11:40:12 CEST 2007

Phillip J. Eby wrote:

In other words, a class' metaclass has to be a derivative of all its bases' metaclasses; ISTM that a prepare namespace needs to be a derivative in some sense of all its bases' prepare results. This probably isn't enforceable, but the pattern should be documented such that e.g. the overloading metaclass' prepare would return a mapping that delegates operations to the mapping returned by its super()'s prepare, and the actual class creation would be similarly chained. PEP 3115 probably needs a section to explain these issues and recommend best practices for implementing prepare and class creation on that basis. I'll write something up after I've thought this through some more.

A variant of the metaclass rule specific to prepare might look something like: A class's metaclass providing the prepare method must be a subclass of all of the class's base classes providing prepare methods.

Cheers, Nick.

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