Metaclasses are advanced and you generally don’t need to know about them or make use of them. But knowing how they work might suggest alternative approaches to many problems. This extract is from my ...

David Mertz, and Michele Simionato explain metaclass programming concepts in Python. "Most readers are already familiar with the concepts of object-oriented programming: inheritance, encapsulation, ...

David Mertz writes about Python metaclass programming on O'Reilly. "Classes and objects are simple, right? Once you really get it, isn't that all there is? Well, no--there's a whole class of advanced ...

Notice that this is a call to MyMeta, which is a class even if it does inherit from type, so what happens is exactly what always happens – first __new__ is called ...