Hey Chris, thanks for the response. Right, the metaclass approach should work because then type(ANY) returns AnyMeta. Still, I find it a bit unintuitive that `classmethod` does not work and that one needs to either write two classes to achieve this behaviour, or to create an instance of a class.
> Under what circumstances do you actually want the same handler for both the > class and its instances? Seems unusual. Well, I think the main application are non-instantiable classes such as `None`, things like `typing.Any` or the example `ANY` here. Since the only purpose of this class is to equality compare to `True`, it doesn't really make sense to allow instances of this class. Disclaimer: my background is mathematics and not computer science so apologies if I am talking non-sense here.... _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/SR62J5HGQHUSF3YF235N7VM3GKRT35UZ/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
