[Docutils-users] New-style classes

[Chris B. <ch...@su...>]

Hi all --

   Is there a reason docutils.parsers.rst.Directive doesn't inherit
from object?  I was trying to add a metaclass to my subclasses, but if
they're not new-style classes I can't.
   Actually, is there a better way to do this?  I'd like to subclass
Directive, and then have my subclasses inherit from that subclass and
share some initialization and behavior code.  But Docutils passes
around classes and uses their attributes in the parser, so I never get
an opportunity to do things during initialization.  I can't use class
decorators in 2.5, and I can't use metaclasses without new-style
classes.  I suppose I could create my own register_directive function
and do the magic in there, but that seems a little odd.

-- Chris