On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Roshan Mathews <rmath...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I came across this in a blog post just now. > See http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#type > > >>> class Foo(object): pass > ... > >>> Bar = type('Bar', (object,), dict()) > What you mentioned here is the exact mechanism of a instantiation of a class by metaclass. Here class is `Bar` and MetaClass is `type` Normally, clsObj = Class() #l = list(), d = dict() etc and for instantiaing Class, Class = Metaclass(Class.__name__, bases, dict) > >>> f = Foo(); b = Bar() > >>> type(f), type(b) > (<class '__main__.Foo'>, <class '__main__.Bar'>) > > Also see > http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#namedtuple-factory-function-for-tuples-with-named-fields > > >>> from collections import namedtuple > >>> Baz = namedtuple('Baz', '') > > Anyone switched to Python 2.7 yet? > Nope, I'm stuck with 2.5 for a while at work. _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
