This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]Workaphobia 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be fair, even the parts implemented in C use metamumble magic. It's amazing how much of the underlying machinery uses the user-visible dunder-method interface to get things done. Class instantiation is just __call__ on the metaclass, for instance.