[Python-3000] PEP for Metaclasses in Python 3000 (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Mar 11 07:01:15 CET 2007

Josiah Carlson wrote:

class foo(...): a = ... metaclass = callable(a, ...)

Personally I wouldn't mind if it were made a requirement that metaclass, if it is present, must be the first name bound in the class body (and can't be inside an if statement, etc.)

Does anyone know of any actual code out there that would be broken by this?

-- Greg

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