Hi all,
I dare risk my brain exploding by reaching for the understanding of
metaclasses.
At first i thought i almost got them, even if vaguely back in a corner
of my mind, my understanding was that, as classes' class a metaclass
would be able to return a different class based on input...
.... until i thought of factory functions and, Python considering
classes just another first-class object, as such i started considering
them.
So is anybody experienced in the dark side semantics of Python willing
to explain the difference, in simple terms, between a metaclass and a
function that returns a class?
Thanks,
Lorenzo
2  1969  lb********@gmai l.com a écrit :
Hi all,
I dare risk my brain exploding by reaching for the understanding of
metaclasses.
At first i thought i almost got them, even if vaguely back in a corner
of my mind, my understanding was that, as classes' class a metaclass
would be able to return a different class based on input...
... until i thought of factory functions and, Python considering
classes just another first-class object, as such i started considering
them.
So is anybody experienced in the dark side semantics of Python willing
to explain the difference, in simple terms, between a metaclass and a
function that returns a class?
The same as the difference between a class and a function that returns
an instance.
One of the main use of metaclasses it to allow "postprocessing " of the
class object - ie, to automatically add extra features to a class,
usually based on the class definition. This is mostly useful for
framework stuff, where it can avoids quite a lot of boilerplate. IOW,
the 'input' of a metaclass is often the class object itself. The
metaclass constructor (I mean the proper constructor, __new__) let you
play with the class bases and attributes before the class object is
instanciated, and the initializer (__init__) let you modify the class
object after instanciation.
You can of course use the metaclass constructor as a class factory
(which it is), but it's obviously overkill if all you need is to
dynamically 'select' a class based on either inputs and/or environment
(configuration, platform, whatnot).
HTH
On Oct 30, 10:46 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
<bdesth.quelque ch...@free.quel quepart.frwrote :
The same as the difference between a class and a function that returns
an instance.
Thanks Bruno.
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