On 4/15/2013 1:43 PM, Antoon Pardon wrote:
$ python3
Python 3.2.3 (default, Feb 20 2013, 17:02:41)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> class vslice (slice):
... pass
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: type 'slice' is not an acceptable base type
It seems types and classes are still not mere synonyms.
Some builtin classes cannot be subclassed. There is an issue to document
which better. That does not mean that it is not a class.
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