Why should prepare be explicitly decorated as a @classmethod?

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2014-05-17 23:26 -0700
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Subject	Why should __prepare__ be explicitly decorated as a @classmethod?
From	Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>

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Hello. I did search for this but couldn't find the info anywhere else, so I'm asking here. Please point out if I've missed some other source of the same info:

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#basic-customization documents that __new__ is special-cased so that while it is actually a static method, it need not be decorated as such. I have a similar question. IIUC __prepare__ is always a class method to be used in metaclasses, so why isn't it also special-cased so that it need not be decorated as a such?

Thanks.

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Why should __prepare__ be explicitly decorated as a @classmethod? Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com> - 2014-05-17 23:26 -0700
  Re: Why should __prepare__ be explicitly decorated as a @classmethod? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-05-18 17:18 +1000

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