Python is accessible and easy, but what makes it especially fun and powerful are its deep meta programming capabilities. One salient example are meta classes, which allow us to deeply hook into the class creation process. But, they seem quite complex at first glance, which may have deterred you so far from exploring them. In my talk, I want to alleviate your uncertainty and give you concrete examples of how meta classes work and what they enable you to do. We will look at using them to customize class creation, ensure data integrity by adding custom validators, or defining custom syntactic sugar that reduces boilerplate.
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