[Python-3000] Specializing the dicts in __dict__

[Steven Bethard]

On 4/18/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> PS: if this change to the class statement were to happen, the crowd
> discussing the 'make' PEP (which I don't like but don't have the power
> to stop being discussed) should take notice.

If you pronounce it dead, I can make sure the discussion stops. :-)

> Or perhaps they could run with the idea and make it the focal
> point of their proposal.

There has been discussion of something like this:

    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-April/063706.html
    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-April/336586.html

But I think the consensus was that there weren't a lot of good
use-cases and adding such support would just make the statement more
complex.  However, if type objects started to support something like
this, I guess the make statement should reconsider it.

Could someone put out some use-cases where it would be really helpful
to be able to specify a different dict type for the class dict?

Steve
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