[Python-Dev] Updated: PEP 359: The make statement (original) (raw)

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 21:30:04 CEST 2006

On 4/18/06, Steven Bethard <steven.bethard at gmail.com> wrote:

I've updated PEP 359 with a bunch of the recent suggestions. The patch is available at: http://bugs.python.org/1472459 and I've pasted the full text below.

I've tried to be more explicit about the goals -- the make statement is mostly syntactic sugar for:: class : metaclass = so that you don't have to lie to your readers when you're not actually creating a class. I've also added some new examples and expanded the discussion of the old ones to give the statement some better motivation. And I've expanded the Open Issues discussions to consider a few alternate keywords and to indicate some of the difficulties in allowing a _makedict_ attribute for customizing the dict in which the block is executed.

Guido has pronounced on this PEP: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-April/000936.html Consider it dead. =)

STeVe

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