inline metaclasses

[K.S.Sreeram]

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> But why use a metaclass?  If the meta class is only applied to *one*
> class, can't you do at class level whatever the metaclass is doing!?

The very fact that you can put a loop inside __metaclass__ may be reason
enough for a one-off metaclass.

Here's a contrived example:

class X :
    def __metaclass__( name, bases, dict ) :
        for k,v in dict.items() :
            if k.startswith('get_') :
                dict[ k[4:].upper() ] = property( v )
        return type( name, bases, dict )

    def get_a( self ) :
        ...

    def get_b( self ) :
        ...


o = X()
print o.A
print o.B

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