[Python-Dev] Community buildbots
Giovanni Bajo
rasky at develer.com
Fri Jul 14 11:06:17 CEST 2006
Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> "from __future__ import new_classes" exists, but the syntax is
>> different:
>>
>> __metaclass__ = type
>
> Although it's not a very obvious spelling,
> particularly to the casual reader who may not be
> familiar with the intricacies of classes and
> metaclasses. I don't think it would hurt to have
> it available as a __future__ import as well.
>
> There's also the advantage that all of a
> module's future assumptions could then be
> documented uniformly in one place, i.e. in
> a __future__ import at the top.
+1.
Giovanni Bajo
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