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From: James Mills <prologic@shortcircuit.net.au>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:36:31 +1000
Subject: Re: meteclasses 2.x/3.x compatibility
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On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:18 PM, andrew cooke <andrew@acooke.org> wrote:
> What I do in Lepl is use two stages. =C2=A0The first calls the type/metac=
lass directly and the second subclasses that. =C2=A0This avoids using the "=
sugar" that changes between 2 and 3.
>
> So, for example, in http://code.google.com/p/lepl/source/browse/src/lepl/=
matchers/matcher.py#40 I have
>
> =C2=A0_Matcher =3D ABCMeta('_Matcher', (object, ), {})
>
> and then
>
> =C2=A0class Matcher(_Matcher):
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0...

Thank Andrew. I like this approach Elegance wins for me :)

cheers
James

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