[jbox]

"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)

[lehmannro]

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

[daeken]

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