At 10:33 PM 3/13/2007 +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: >Greg Ewing wrote: > > If they're passed to both, then the signatures become > > > > metaclass.__prepare__(name, bases, **kwargs) > > metaclass(name, bases, body, **kwargs) > > > > BTW, I don't think I like the name "__prepare__" much > > more than "__metacreate__". It seems just as wooly. > > What's being prepared? How? What for? > >__namespace__ and __instancedict__ are the most literally descriptive >names that have occurred to me (after all, the role of the method is to >return the locals() dictionary for the creation of a class). > >That said, __new__ & __init__ could also be said to be somewhat woolly >if you didn't already know what they did - preparing a namespace for >evaluation of a class body shouldn't be hard to remember once someone >has learned what the term is referring to. > >If Guido decides he likes __prepare__, I can certainly live with it :) >(I actually quite like the connotation that what the method returns has >been prepared for something, but isn't really finished yet)
How about __class_locals__()? This would at least say exactly what the return value is used for. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
