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Author ionelmc
Recipients Claudiu.Popa, belopolsky, christian.heimes, eric.snow, ethan.furman, ionelmc, jedwards, llllllllll, r.david.murray, terry.reedy
Date 2015-04-19.18:28:19
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On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Eric Snow <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

> Finally, instead of changing callable, why not use a metaclass that does
> the right thing?  I believe MagicMock does something along those lines.
>

​What would be the "right thing"? AFAIK this cannot be achieved with a
metaclass, since the check in `callable` just does a dumb check for
`x->ob_type->tp_call​`. Seriously, if you know a way to make
`x->ob_type->tp_call​` run any python code please let me know :-)

Thanks,
-- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro
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2015-04-19 18:28:19ionelmcsetrecipients: + ionelmc, terry.reedy, belopolsky, christian.heimes, r.david.murray, Claudiu.Popa, ethan.furman, eric.snow, llllllllll, jedwards
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