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Metaclasses won't fly in this case, since the order of struct members has to be kept. Tried a bunch of things to make it work, but in the end nothing came out cleaner.


"Metaclasses won't fly in this case, since the order of struct members has to be kept."

Couldn't you use a creation counter in a metaclasses and assign order to the attributes as they are added? (like Django's forms use to keep track of field order)


Oh, I didn't think about the order. Django's approach to this issue is really simple and only requires that all your Struct fields are instances of some common base class.

http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/fo... creation of the counter on individual fields

http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/fo... application of the counter upon field harvesting


Huh, I hadn't thought about that... I may be able to pull that off. Thanks for the suggestion.




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