[Python-Dev] RE: Hot-To Guide for Descriptors (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Jan 22 12:01:04 EST 2004

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004, Raymond Hettinger wrote:

I think all of the topics are best understood in terms of three groups: classic classes, new-style classes, and roll your own classes. Lumping the latter two together won't help one bit.

While that's technically true, most of the idiomatic uses of metaclasses that I've seen do result in the creation of "normal" new-style classes. We don't want to obscure that, either, IMO.

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