Kay Schluehr wrote: > I think it would be a good idea to pronounce the similarity between > function decorators and metaclasses. Metaclasses were once introduced > as an arcane art of fuzzy bearded hackers or supersmart 'enterprise > architects' that plan at least products of Zope size but not as a tool > for the simple programmer on the street. But maybe they should be and > there should also be librarys of them representing orthogonal > customizations ready for plug in.
In which case, I point out the need for better, more accessible documentation. The Python 2.4 tutorial, for example, doesn't mention them at all as far as I've noticed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list