properties + types, implementing meta-class desciptors elegantly?

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1058660069.1164.python-list at python.org>,
Mike C. Fletcher <mcfletch at rogers.com> wrote:
>Aahz wrote:
>>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?
>
>Just the meta-class instances (classes).  Wasn't sufficiently precise in 
>my description, the properties are normally declared in the meta-class, 
>but they are actually properties of the meta-class instances.

Next question: are you also trying to access the properties on class
instances?
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