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		BerislavLopac on Aug 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uncommon Uses of Python in Commonly Used Libraries Code in __init__ is one of the core concepts of Python; seeing it as a hack is purely individual, and probably based on your own experience with it. It's exactly the same as calling mataclasses "a hack".

Octabrain on Aug 21, 2022 [–]

> Code in __init__ is one of the core concepts of Python; seeing it as a hack is purely individual

Yes, in fact I started my first message with a clear "As a personal opinion...".

Apart from that, the comparison with metaclasses does not make sense. Metaclasses are an OOP concept.

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