Metaclasses
A metaclass is a class that describesthe construction and behavior of other classes, similarly to how classesdescribe the construction and behavior of objects.The default metaclass is type
, but it’s possible to use other metaclasses.Metaclasses allows one to create “a different kind of class”, such asEnum
s, NamedTuple
s and singletons.
Mypy has some special understanding of ABCMeta
and EnumMeta
.