On 04/25/2013 12:02 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
> 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).
So Animals is a type? Like int?
--> int('5') # 5
--> Animal(1) # I think it should be Animal.ant ;)
>> This is how classes work.
>> Not really. Normal classes, when called, give you a new instance: they
> don't look up existing instances.
You mean like bool?
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~Ethan~
