A metaclass is simply the class of a class. Rather than elaborating on that, there's a stack overflow answer that's often linked that is uncharacteristically d

A metaclass is simply the class of a class. Rather than elaborating on that, there's a stack overflow answer that's often linked that is uncharacteristically decent at explaining here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/6581949/637787 http://stackoverflow.com/a/6581949/637787. Note that as I said, I would suggest you completely ignore this and not even bother reading that right now.