On Sat, 25 May 2013 06:23:56 -0700 Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > In http://bugs.python.org/issue17936, I proposed making tp_subclasses > > (the internal container implementing object.__subclasses__) a dict. > > This would make the return order of __subclasses__ completely > > undefined, while it is right now slightly predictable. I have never seen > > __subclasses__ actually used in production code, so I'm wondering > > whether someone might be affected by such a change. > > > > Regards > > > > Personally I never used it, but it's now explicitly documented as returning > a list. Not sure what's the right thing to do here, but perhaps returning > an OrderedDict can eliminate the order problem?
It would still return a list. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
