diff --git a/Demo/metaclasses/index.html b/Demo/metaclasses/index.html index 52d52e9fd01..b87d2c2f292 100644 --- a/Demo/metaclasses/index.html +++ b/Demo/metaclasses/index.html @@ -25,6 +25,15 @@ Beaudry hack,'' but that's a misnomer. There's nothing hackish about it -- in fact, it is rather elegant and deep, even though there's something dark to it.) +
(On first reading, you may want to skip directly to the examples in +the section "Writing Metaclasses in Python" below, unless you want +your head to explode.) (XXX I should really restructure this document +to place the historic notes last. After 1.5a4 is released...) + +
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Documentation of the Don Beaudry hook has purposefully been kept minimal, since it is a feature of incredible power, and is easily abused. Basically, it checks whether the type of the base @@ -148,6 +157,10 @@ HREF="http://maigret.cog.brown.edu/pyutil/">MESS or Extension Classes for more information. +
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In Python 1.5, the requirement to write a C extension in order to @@ -502,6 +515,8 @@ Synch module, and it would be interesting to add preconditions to it as well. This needs more research. Perhaps a metaclass could be provided that allows stackable wrappers... +
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