The Don Beaudry/Jim Fulton hack

Neel Krishnaswami neelk at brick.cswv.com
Thu Dec 30 09:27:28 EST 1999


Dave Abrahams <abrahams at mediaone.net> wrote:
> 
> But as you can see, you can't set the __class__ attribute of an instance to
> anything other than a class. So what have I missed? How am I supposed to get
> this to work "without writing C code"?

Read GvR's essay, "Metaclass Programming in Python 1.5" at

    http://www.python.org/doc/essays/metaclasses/

I have to admit that you are more hardcore than me -- I never bothered
looking at the C source once I had found this essay. :)


Neel



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