[Python-Dev] [RELEASED] Python 2.7 alpha 2

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Jan 12 13:14:47 CET 2010


On Jan 11, 2010, at 10:53 PM, Jack Diederich wrote:

>3) 100% of the module level assignments in public projects were the
>"__metaclass__ = type" variety which is why there isn't a fixer for
>that.  Also, a fixer would have been really, really ugly (munge every
>class definition in this module because there is a top level
>assignment).

And almost certainly unnecessary.  IME, those are all to easily make bare
class definitions new style in Python 2.

-Barry
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