[Python-Dev] 2.4a2, and @decorators (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Thu Aug 5 15:30:20 CEST 2004

Michael Chermside <mcherm at mcherm.com> writes:

Michael Hudson writes:

> that would be insane,

class C(random.choice([dict, list])): pass is my favourite example of this :-) Where is THAT monstrocity used!?

Well, it's not, I hope :-)

It might occasionally be useful for proving to people that Python really doesn't believe in declarations.

Cheers, mwh

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