Thanks for your response.
I'm confident that my use case for this metaclass is correct for what I'm
trying to do. I've been using them for a few years now, but sparingly
because as you said they are almost always unnecessary. I simplified my
example significantly for discussion -- I'm not actually
On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 10:13 am, Jason Maldonis wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I want to use a metaclass to override how class instantiation works. I've
> done something analogous to using the Singleton metaclass from the Python3
> Cookbook example.
In my opinion, nine times out of ten, using a metaclass
Ok no worries then! Thanks for the tips. I might wait until tomorrow then
until someone comes along who deals with metaclasses and alternate class
constructors.
In case you're curious, I'm doing two things that are relevant here, and
I'll link the python3 cookbook examples that are super useful (I
Thanks for the reply. And I think I wasn't clear enough. I was wondering
what the metaclass `type`'s `type.__call__` does explicitly. I'm reasonably
comfortable writing metaclasses when I need them, and I understand how
`.__call__` works for non-metaclass objects.
In my first email I gave three po
Hi everyone,
I want to use a metaclass to override how class instantiation works. I've
done something analogous to using the Singleton metaclass from the Python3
Cookbook example.
However, I want to provide a classmethod that allows for "normal" class
instantiation that prevents this metaclass fr
