On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:31 -0700, Russell E. Owen wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Tristan Seligmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Why does it matter if the single statement you insert is spelled
> > " metaclass = type" instead of "from future import whatever"?
> > Remember, unlike the division example, you would only have to insert one
> > statement, as opposed to changing every use of integer division.
>
> It matters because "metaclass = type" is completely obscure. How would
> any non-expert have a clue what it means?
How would this non-expert have a clue what
"from __future__ import new_style_classes" means?
holger
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