-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/2013 12:39 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: > Animals is a class. Giving Animals a parameter (such as 1 or 'ant') > should return the instance that matches.
Animals is *not* a class -- it just uses the class syntax as a convenient way to set up the names used to construct the new type. (This subtlety is why the metaclass hook is reputed to make peoples' brains explode). > This is how classes work. Not really. Normal classes, when called, give you a new instance: they don't look up existing instances. Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 [email protected] Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlF5fa4ACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ7FSwCgzhcoXonMO/7W+xYMpM4EvtTj nPIAnAkHtWxFMaU3dqfFUclNQkUcJ2FZ =C0/7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com