At 02:59 PM 12/12/2005 -0800, Alex Martelli wrote: >On 12/12/05, Phillip J. Eby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 02:25 PM 12/12/2005 -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: > > >That looks good to me. Well, I actually try not to use cls as the first > > >argument to metaclass's __new__ method, because there's so many classes > > >being tossed about at that point that I try to be more explicit. But I > > >don't consider that a common enough issue to be worth mentioning in PEP 8. > > > > I usually use 'meta' as the first argument of a metaclass __new__ or a > > metaclass classmethod, to avoid this particular bit of confusion. > >...while I use 'mcl' for the same purpose (seems closer to me in >spirit to 'cls' than 'meta' would be); Guido said he liked that, at >the time (a couple of years ago) when he was following a talk of mine >on metaclasses where I introduced this convention.
I'd rather see 'metaclass' fully spelled out than resort to 'mcl'; metaclass code is tricky enough to write without figuring out abbreviations. :) Indeed, the only reason I use 'cls' is because it was Pronounced the standard; before the pronouncement I was using 'klass' as the argument name for class methods. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
