Metaclasses and class variables

[Jan-Ole Esleben]

I thought __new__ was called upon construction of the _class_ object
that "Meta" is the type of. Then it would be available at the time of
the definition of my class. Or am I mistaken?

Ole

2005/8/4, Christopher Subich <spam.csubich+block at block.subich.spam.com>:
> Jan-Ole Esleben wrote:
> > class Meta(type):
> >   def __new__(cls, name, bases, d):
> >     d['classvar'] = []
> >     return type.__new__(cls, name, bases, d)
> 
> The problem is that __new__ is called upon object construction, not
> class definition, but you're trying to set the class variables at
> definition-time.
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