[Python-Dev] Adding types.build_class for 3.3

[Barry Warsaw]

On May 09, 2012, at 05:20 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>Ah, good point. In that case, consider me convinced: static method it
>is. It can join mro() as the second non-underscore method defined on
>type().

+1

If I may dip into the bikeshed paint once more.  I think it would be useful to
establish a naming convention for alternative constructors implemented as
{static,class}methods.  I don't like `build_class()` much.  Would you be
opposed to `type.new()`?

-Barry