[Python-3000] Why lowercase?

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Dec 14 12:54:06 CET 2007


At 08:51 AM 12/14/2007 +0100, Christian Heimes wrote:
>UserDict is a relict from the
>past and scheduled for removal.

Really?  Why?

>It's functionality is replaced by the
>subclass-able dict type and ABCs.

Er, no, its functionality *isn't* replaced by subclassable dict, 
since subclassable dict does stuff you can't override (e.g. copy() 
doesn't return a subclass instance).



More information about the Python-3000 mailing list