Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > At first, I was very pleased by Python's syntax (and still I am). > Then, after two weeks, I learned about descriptors and metaclasses > and such and understood nothing (for the first time in syntax I felt > totally lost).
Well, I've been using Python for almost ten years, and I've managed to deliberately ignore descriptors and metaclasses quite successfully. I get the impression that descriptors in particular are a detail of the low-level implementation that get a disproportionate level of coverage because of the "hack value" they can provide (albeit with seemingly inappropriate application to certain problem areas). Still, having new- and old-style classes, a separate old-style exception class hierarchy, and various other "transitional" features doesn't seem very "Pythonic", does it? ;-) Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
