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<H1>Metaclasses in Python 1.5</H1>
<H2>(A.k.a. The Killer Joke :-)</H2>
<P><b>Note: this document describes a feature only released in Python
1.5 (starting with 1.5a3).</b>
<HR>
(<i>Postscript:</i> reading this essay is probably not the best way to
understand the metaclass hook described here. See a <A
HREF="meta-vladimir.txt">message posted by Vladimir Marangozov</A>
which may give a gentler introduction to the matter. You may also
want to search Deja News for messages with "metaclass" in the subject
posted to comp.lang.python in July and August 1998.)
<HR>
<P>In previous Python releases (and still in 1.5), there is something
called the ``Don Beaudry hook'', after its inventor and champion.
@ -27,8 +35,7 @@ there's something dark to it.)
<P>(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...)
your head to explode.)
<P>