properties + types, implementing meta-class desciptors elegantly?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1058654317.6488.python-list at python.org>,
Mike C. Fletcher <mcfletch at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>Nope, I'm trying to make meta-classes which have rich properties.  The 
>particular project is a plug-in system, where the classes (the 
>metaclass-instances) want to have all sorts of rich metadata associated 
>with them in a way which meshes with the rest of the system (i.e. using 
>a descriptor-based introspection mechanism).
>...

Keeping in mind that I'm really not following this discussion all that
closely (because metaclasses give me headaches), are you trying to make
a *metaclass* that has properties or a *metaclass instance* (i.e. a
class) that has properties?
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