25 May
2013
25 May
'13
8:23 a.m.
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
Hello,
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.
Regards
Personally I never used it, but it's now explicitly documented as returning a list. Not sure what's the right thing to do here, but perhaps returning an OrderedDict can eliminate the order problem? Eli