>>> import this > ... > Explicit is better than implicit. > ... > There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. It's on

>>> import this > ... > Explicit is better than implicit. > ... > There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. It's one of Python's philosophies (/s). I agree that this is a more explicit way to handle metaprogramming in Python. It's analogous to method decorators, unlike metaclasses, which has no "metamethod" equivalent (AFAIK).