[Zope3-dev] Interface.Implements module still broken for 2.2 metaclasses

Phillip J. Eby pje@telecommunity.com
Mon, 08 Jul 2002 12:06:18 -0400


At 11:51 AM 7/8/02 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
>Steve Alexander wrote:
>> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
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>> Ideally, they should, although that still doesn't deal with rolling your 
>> own metaclass that doesn't derive from a standard class type. I don't 
>> think there's a particularly elegant way to deal with that, though. yagni.
>
>If you're going to write your own meta class, you could write one that
>kept it's own dang __implements__ attribute separate from it's instances'.
>Then you wouldn't even need this awful hack. :)
>

I did that, or something like it.  I wrote a metaclass that wraps
__implements__ and __class_implements__ in a descriptor that returns a
different value depending on whether it's retrieved from the class, or the
instance.  Unfortunately, it doesn't help!