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		wheelerof4te on Sept 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Metaprogramming in Python I wouldn't call subclasses, metaclasses and decorators easy to use, let alone learn to use correcly. The comparison makes no sense.

philipov on Sept 17, 2022 | [–]

What? Decorators are easy to use, subclasses are easy to use, and you don't need metaclasses.

ThePadawan on Sept 17, 2022 | [–]

I read your "vodoo magic in a programming language" to mean "behind the scenes in the implementation of the programming language", not "for a programmer to understand while using the programming language".

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