On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 8:33 PM, Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivskyi@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10 November 2017 at 18:39, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Ivan Levkivskyi <levkivskyi@gmail.com> wrote:

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After creating the class,
the original bases are saved in ``__orig_bases__`` (currently this is also
done by the metaclass).

​Those are *still* bases, right, even if they are not in the mro?​ I'm not sure if this is a naming thing or something even more.

The objects that have __subclass_base__ method (proposed to rename to __mro_entry__)

are removed from __bases__ attributed of the newly created class. Otherwise they may cause a metaclass conflict.

One can however still call them syntactic (or static?) bases. For example this is how it is going to be used by typing:

    from typing import List

    class Tokens(List[int]):

        ...

    assert Tokens.__bases__ == (list,)

​Why is List[int] not allowed to be the base? Neither method-lookup performance nor the metaclass conflict issue seem to depend on whether List[int] is in __bases__.