[Python-Dev] Adding types.build_class for 3.3 (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed May 9 18:21:12 CEST 2012


On May 09, 2012, at 05:20 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Ah, good point. In that case, consider me convinced: static method it is. It can join mro() as the second non-underscore method defined on type().

+1

If I may dip into the bikeshed paint once more. I think it would be useful to establish a naming convention for alternative constructors implemented as {static,class}methods. I don't like build_class() much. Would you be opposed to type.new()?

-Barry



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