On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Fred Drake <fdr...@acm.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Raymond Hettinger > <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I had thought there was a conscious decision to not change any existing >> classes from old-style to new-style. > > I thought so as well. Changing any class from old-style to new-style > risks breaking applications in obscure & mysterious ways. (Yes, we've > been bitten by this before; it's a real problem.) > > > -Fred
+1. I've been bitten by this more than once in some of the more obscure old(-style) classes in twisted.python. Laurens _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
