Attention is currently required from: laforge, neels. fixeria has posted comments on this change by neels. ( https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/pysim/+/39741?usp=email ) Change subject: [1/6] personalization: refactor: drop ClassVarMeta use ...................................................................... Patch Set 9: (1 comment) Patchset: PS6: I find it funny that you're saying "normal python" / "plain standard python", as if this was some kind of dialect or a language on top of Python. But the metaclasses are part of the language. PEP 3115 (https://peps.python.org/pep-3115/) dates back to 07-Mar-2007. As I commented earlier:

IMO, the old approach is much more compact and thus more readable.

so I would vote against this kind of refactoring, sorry.

i don't understand what purpose a meta class serves.

In this particular case it allows assigning class attributes in a compact way.

* fixeria's example shows that the shortest way to achieve class attributes is

You say it's shorter, but looking at this patch I see the modified classes taking nearly twice more lines than the old code. My example simply shows a metaclass `MetaFoo` implementation, that allows to assign class attributes in both ways. But you don't seem to like the idea of mixing up different styles.

* upcoming patches add a lot of class attributes, and i would like to consistently use one way. I chose the "normal python" way, so as a first step, this patch drops the meta class.

Consistency does sound like a solid argument, ok. And indeed, the approach of using metaclasses becomes less readable when you have a lot of attributes. But this can be avoided by creating intermediate classes (like you already do). And by having less attributes, e.g. `len = (min, max)` instead of `min_len` + `max_len`. Not willing to block you, just sharing my view. Leaving the final decision up to @laforge@osmocom.org. -- To view, visit https://gerrit.osmocom.org/c/pysim/+/39741?usp=email To unsubscribe, or for help writing mail filters, visit https://gerrit.osmocom.org/settings?usp=email Gerrit-MessageType: comment Gerrit-Project: pysim Gerrit-Branch: master Gerrit-Change-Id: I60ea8fd11fb438ec90ddb08b17b658cbb789c051 Gerrit-Change-Number: 39741 Gerrit-PatchSet: 9 Gerrit-Owner: neels <nhofmeyr@sysmocom.de> Gerrit-Reviewer: Jenkins Builder Gerrit-CC: fixeria <vyanitskiy@sysmocom.de> Gerrit-CC: laforge <laforge@osmocom.org> Gerrit-Attention: neels <nhofmeyr@sysmocom.de> Gerrit-Attention: laforge <laforge@osmocom.org> Gerrit-Comment-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 08:06:01 +0000 Gerrit-HasComments: Yes Gerrit-Has-Labels: No Comment-In-Reply-To: neels <nhofmeyr@sysmocom.de> Comment-In-Reply-To: laforge <laforge@osmocom.org> Comment-In-Reply-To: fixeria <vyanitskiy@sysmocom.de>