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copied!<p>To answer your question: no.</p> <p>Feel free to research it further. </p> <p>Note, however, that you've conflated design patterns (which are just ideas) with code (which is an implementation.)</p> <p>Good code often reflects a number of interlocking design patterns. There's no easy way for formalize this. The best you can do is a nice picture, well-written docstrings, and method names that reflect the various design patterns.</p> <p>Also note that a meta-class is a class. That's a loop. There's no higher level of abstractions. At that point, it's just intent. The idea of meta-meta-class doesn't mean much -- it's a meta-class for meta-classes, which is silly but technically possible. It's all just a class, however.</p> <hr> <p><strong>Edit</strong></p> <p>"Are classes that create metaclasses really so silly? How does their utility suddenly run out?"</p> <p>A class that creates a class is fine. That's pretty much it. The fact that the target class is a meta class or an abstract superclass or a concrete class doesn't matter. Metaclasses make classes. They might make other metaclasses, which is weird, but they're still just metaclasses making classes.</p> <p>The utility "suddenly" runs out because there's no actual thing you need (or can even write) in a metaclass that makes another metaclass. It isn't that it "suddenly" becomes silly. It's that there's nothing useful there.</p> <p>As I seed, feel free to research it. For example, actually write a metaclass that builds another metaclass. Have fun. There might be something useful there.</p> <p>The point of OO is to write class definitions that model real-world entities. As such, a metaclass is sometimes handy to define cross-cutting aspects of several related classes. (It's a way to do some Aspect-Oriented Programming.) That's all a metaclass can really do; it's a place to hold a few functions, like <code>__new__()</code>, that aren't proper parts of the class itself.</p>

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