Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html Newsgroups: Linux Today Subject: developerWorks: Metaclass Programming in Python Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:42:16 -0400 Message-ID: <1289@Linux Today.nnrss> "Most readers are already familiar with the concepts of object-oriented programming: inheritance, encapsulation, polymorphism. But the creation of objects of a given class, with certain parents, is usually thought of as a 'just so' operation. It turns out that a number of new programming constructs become either easier, or possible at all, when you can customize the process of object creation..."

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