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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Mar 13 11:10:06 CET 2007

Nick Coghlan wrote:

Along similar lines, I'd be marginally happier with:

class Bob(meta=Planet): pass

Is there some way we could remove the word "meta" from the syntax altogether? I don't mind using it in conversation, but it seems a tad too geeky to have as an actual part of the language.

How about

class Bob(Base1, Base2, class Planet): ...

i.e. we're saying what we want the class of the class to be.

A benefit would be that the metaclass doesn't end up as being one of the keyword args in the first place, so there's no issue of whether to strip it out or not.

-- Greg

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