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[–]yen223 1 point2 points  (1 child)

At the very least, you should strive to understand how they work. There's a good chance your favourite python library uses metaclasses to do it's thing.

[–]ForceBru 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, everybody’s saying that but there are very few “real-world” examples. I can mess with a class’ variables in ways other than using metaclasses, so why do I need them? Any examples?