Re: Why should prepare be explicitly decorated as a @classmethod?

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Date	2014-05-18 17:18 +1000
Subject	Re: Why should __prepare__ be explicitly decorated as a @classmethod?
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 4:26 PM, Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. The less
special cases a language has, the more likely it is to fit inside your
brain, and that's a good thing.

ChrisA

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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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