[Python-Dev] Type/class differences (Re: Sets: elt in dict, lst.include)

[Greg Ewing]

Tim Peters <tim.one@home.com>:

> The old type/class split:  list is a type, and types spell their "method
> tables" in ways that have little in common with how classes do it.

Maybe as a first step towards type/class unification one
day, we could add __xxx__ attributes to all the builtin
types, and start to think of the method table as the
definitive source of all methods, with the tp_xxx slots
being a sort of cache for the most commonly used ones.

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