[Python-Dev] Class Methods

[Just van Rossum]

"Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:

> Another question: presumably when I write
> 
>     class Foo: pass
> 
> Foo is implicitly given the built-in metaclass M, but say I wanted to
> define a class Foo with a different metaclass, how would I spell this?
> I think at one point I suggested a semi-ugly syntactic hack, where
> `class' was actually a namespace and you could add new metaclasses to
> it.  So you could write something like
> 
>     class.WeirdClass Foo: pass
> 
> and now Foo's metaclass would be WeirdClass.

I once proposed (and implemented as an extension to the metaclass hook)
this:

class Foo:
    __class__ = WeirdClass

I still don't think that's all that bad, especially since it screams
magic at you...

Just