On Wed 2016-06-22 Eric Snow [mailto:ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com] wrote: > The problem I have with this is that it still doesn't give any strong > relationship with the class definition. > Certainly in most cases it will amount to the same thing. However, there is > no way to know if cls.__dict__ > represents the class definition or not. You also lose knowing whether or not > a class came from a definition > (or acts as though it did). Finally, __definition_order__ makes the > relationship with the definition order clear, > whereas cls.__dict__ does not. > Instead of being an obvious tool, with cls.__dict__ that relationship would > be tucked away where only a > few folks with deep knowledge of Python would be in a position to take > advantage.
I see this as being grossly/loosely analogous to traversing __bases__ vs calling mro(), so I feel the same rationale applies to adding __definition_order__ as mro. Eric _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
