Understanding how to use metaclasses and allocation fluently is an important skill to mastering Python. In this course, Core Python: Allocation and Metaclasses, you’ll learn to control how Python creates new classes and allocates instances of classes. First, you’ll explore object allocation. Next, you’ll discover metaclasses, the types of types in Python which control how classes are created and initialized. Finally, you’ll learn how to leverage these concepts in practical ways. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of metaclasses and object allocation needed to understand how they’re used in other people’s code and apply them to your own designs.
Author Name: Austin Bingham
Author Description:
Austin is a founding director of Sixty North, a software consulting, training, and application development company. A native of Texas, in 2008 Austin moved to Stavanger, Norway where he helped develop industry-leading oil reservoir modeling software in C++ and Python. Prior to that he worked at National Instruments developing LabVIEW, at Applied Research Labs (Univ. of Texas at Austin) developing sonar systems for the U.S. Navy, and at a number of telecommunications companies. He is an ex… more

Table of Contents

• Course Overview
  1min
• Instance Creation
  17mins
• Metaclasses and Class Creation
  12mins
• Metaclass Details
  20mins
• A Metaclass for Bitfields
  37mins
• Subclass Registration
  11mins
• Metaclasses and Inheritance
  9mins