On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > 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.
FWIW, when I've used __subclasses__, I've never depended on it having a stable or predictable order. (I find it somewhat difficult to imagine *why* one would do that, but of course that doesn't mean nobody has done it.) _______________________________________________ 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
