[issue4998] __slots__ on Fraction is useless

2009-02-12 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: This needs to be merged before 3.0.1 goes out. I can't do it right now since I don't have ssh access; will do it when I get home if no-one beats me to it. -- priority: critical - release blocker

[issue4998] __slots__ on Fraction is useless

2009-02-12 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Merged (manually) to py3k in r69547; svnmerged to 3.0 and 2.6 in r69548, r69549. -- status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4998

[issue4998] __slots__ on Fraction is useless

2009-01-20 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Changes by Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net: -- assignee: jyasskin - marketdickinson keywords: +patch priority: release blocker - critical type: - behavior versions: +Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12810/fractions.diff

[issue4998] __slots__ on Fraction is useless

2009-01-20 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Thanks for the patch, Raymond. I'm don't really have any experience with ABCs. I've read the PEP (a few times), but am not convinced that I fully understand all the ideas involved. What are the practical differences between having

[issue4998] __slots__ on Fraction is useless

2009-01-20 Thread Jeffrey Yasskin
Jeffrey Yasskin jyass...@gmail.com added the comment: Rational has default definitions for some of its methods and properties. If Fraction inherits from Rational, it gets those definitions implicitly. If it's registered with Rational, it has to define them itself. I don't know that much about

[issue4998] __slots__ on Fraction is useless

2009-01-20 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: Got it. Thanks, Jeffrey. The patch looks good to me---please go ahead and apply. -- assignee: marketdickinson - rhettinger ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org

[issue4998] __slots__ on Fraction is useless

2009-01-20 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Fixed in the trunk: r68813. Benjamin, can you please apply to 2.6, 3.0 and 3.1. -- assignee: rhettinger - benjamin.peterson resolution: - fixed ___ Python tracker

[issue4998] __slots__ on Fraction is useless

2009-01-19 Thread Benjamin Peterson
Benjamin Peterson benja...@python.org added the comment: The problem is that Fraction inherits from a class without __slots__ (Rationale), so it's useless. I suggest that the __slots__ be removed or Rationale.register() is used instead of inheritance. -- assignee: - jyasskin nosy:

[issue4998] __slots__ on Fraction is useless

2009-01-19 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: I believe that __slots__ was used for performance (memory, speed) reasons here rather than for preventing random attribute assignments. But maybe inheriting from Rational invalidates those reasons as well... -- nosy:

[issue4998] __slots__ on Fraction is useless

2009-01-19 Thread Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson dicki...@gmail.com added the comment: The Decimal class has the same issue in py3k (but not in the trunk). ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4998 ___

[issue4998] __slots__ on Fraction is useless

2009-01-19 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Arghh! Decimal is NOT supposed to inherit or register with numbers. Guido has pronounced on this and we've discussed it multiple times. See the comments in numbers.py which were supposed to serve as a reminder. Decimals

[issue4998] __slots__ on Fraction is useless

2009-01-19 Thread Raymond Hettinger
Raymond Hettinger rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net added the comment: Fixed the decimal issue in r68800 and r68799 . Still needs a fix to Fractions, preferably adding an empty __slots__ to all levels of numbers.py. ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org