-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Apr 25, 2013, at 03:02 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
>On 04/25/2013 12:39 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: >> Animals is a class. Giving Animals a parameter (such as 1 or 'ant') >> should return the instance that matches. > >Animals is *not* a class -- it just uses the class syntax as a convenient >way to set up the names used to construct the new type. (This subtlety >is why the metaclass hook is reputed to make peoples' brains explode). Thanks for the great explanation! :) - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJReYSxAAoJEBJutWOnSwa/1a8QALXlY5GkrDTgjTNc+i3VFbpW nQ+5iYSUKk7E7A5HTE/GO1thG/3lVVLQpDvuTP+ETqHiVgZ/oKI0WFpfC7C6h85W U7qclwjfZ0kng529FscwNcICgPilHng/gOR4msatje59R9Sw54mDkIYDHllhYzdZ R1NeWzfBmKL9aZJ3xGaIKHEB6Cwwk6ZL0F7S87Voe9ipd6ihRPbJK4y574XPe/4i m8jIrEVHI/9KCiDEdJrMXX7u+61jLEmWW9UnMuDJkNItxg/oiVwknSd2munDh1Ti yf7dZPkfx4Dcarv3DH5K/D/wo8OaOiqnvrM0qTImQObCWk8RswnGT3/SJmBNsfmN gndc+UTcVDYsVHtr57SEc79Y6vEAgdOlkrOChgzEoXUh9DS2slYFGuVMajncRJTI RY14k2KzPy1FdPysADk3KW6BIZRvZHMvszNFcEQiMwrDv98zFPfCqsm1KME7eBSg 4fjD0e5f8V+yLCyeUMUZxB6KhFyPdDi53w9X2mOQx9TPJqOJPNS7kzgGcMxagLMI BEw+3L3c5B5FZSd9JIQeIm3r5Cfee9Dvfgcfd5Y3QsHzaGCSSermRXs0cqRS51Bl 4LT39RDm6E+rSguR8PSOabmhwUrfhr2KMzkfZXtR8RwStPH4Tii8zpiSgY88k9JD XUZvZxjFCwWl3syPcMNR =Eglp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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