Raymond Hettinger added the comment: We really don't want to encourage any reliance on this optimization. It was put there only to help mitigate the performance impact of a common mistake.
I don't think subclasses warrant extended coverage. This was already a hack at the outer limits of how far we were willing to go. It doesn't make sense to propagate it further. ---------- nosy: +rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27458> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
