[Python-Dev] Simpler reformulation of C inheritance Q.

[Greg Ewing]

> Here's a hack.
> 
> For static extensions, you could extend one of the extension structs,
> e.g. PyMappingMethods

This perhaps suggests a way of handling this in a more
general way in the future:

Add a slot to the typeobject which points to a variable-sized
array of pointers. There is one entry in the array for each
level of inheritance, and it points to a struct containing
whatever extra stuff you want to add at that level.

This would only handle single inheritance, but I think
that's all you can have at the C level anyway, isn't
it?

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