class factory:
@register def __call__(self): pass
Just as an additional data point - obviously not applicable in all cases.
Yep, and it's obviously possible to do that now with just function decorators. Getting my head around what that actually *does* is a little trickier, though (as near as I can tell, it will register a standalone function named __call__, with nothing linking it to the containing class).
What a class decorator allows is the registration of the whole process of invoking the metaclass and hence __new__ and __init__ as a single unit.
Anyway, I don't particularly feel the lack of class decorators, but I thought I should mention this (perhaps small) category of non-transforming decorators as a situation where class decoration would make more sense to me than using a metaclass.
Cheers, Nick.
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