On Apr 16, 12:40 pm, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 16, 12:27 pm, Rhamphoryncus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Apr 16, 6:56 am, Aaron Watters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I don't get it. It ain't broke. Don't fix it. > > > So how would you have done the old-style class to new-style class > > transition? > > I'd ignore it. I never understood it and never had > any need for it anyway. New-style classes and metaclasses > were a complicated solution to an unimportant problem in > my opinion. And also a fiendish way to make code > inscrutible -- which I thought was more of a Perl thing > than a Python thing, or should be. > > I must be missing some of the deeper issues here. Please > educate me.
The deeper issue is that you're benefiting from these "unimportant" changes even if you never use them yourself. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
