On 10/17/2016 11:44 PM, Mr. Wrobel wrote:
Ok,so in general, we could say that using Metclasses is ok for manipulating
__new__ but not that what is setting by __init__. Am I right?
No and yes.
In this code (python 2 syntax):
#untested
class Wonderful(object):
__metaclass__ = SomeMetaClass
diamond = Sparkly(7)
club = 9
def display(self):
print "I'm an instance!"
The metaclass controls what happens when Wonderful is created:
- it can add the name 'diamond' to the Sparkly descriptor;
- it can change/remove/add other attributes such as club, spade, or whatever;
- it can wrap methods such as display to pre- or post-process calls to it
- etc.
Once the class (Wonderful, in this example) has been created:
- x = Wonderful() # metaclass not called
- x.display() # metaclass not called
- x.diamond # metaclass not called
- list(Wonderful) # metaclass called (e.g. SomeMetaClass.__iter__(cls) )
# where cls = Wonderful
Check out http://stackoverflow.com/a/35730545/208880 for a simple demonstration
of a metaclass.
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