Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> writes:
> This downside of using subclassing as an API should be well known by now
> and widely warned against.

It wasn't known to me until now. Are these downsides described in some
more detail somewhere?


So far I have always thought that, as long as I avoid using private
attributes, subclassing was supported like any other use of the API.


Best,
Nikolaus

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