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		mhurron on Aug 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intermediate Python Perhaps the author thought metaclasses are Advanced Python.

rectangletangle on Aug 17, 2015 [–]

I'd tend to agree. I've been writing Python for years, and I still haven't had a legitimate use for them. Not to say that there's no use for them, they're handy when implementing an ORM. However, it's not often that you'd need to do something like that.

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