[Python-Dev] Py_TPFLAGS_HEAPTYPE too overloaded

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan wrote:
> One specific example I can think of is that object.__hash__ is special
> cased in a few places due to the way its definition interacts with the
> definition of comparison operations. Allowing changes to the contents of
> object's tp_hash slot could lead to much weirdness when it came to
> __hash__ inheritance.

Just thought of a much better example as I clicked send: the basic
numeric types (especially int) are locked down because they are
special-cased all over the place (including in the main interpreter eval
loop) in order to speed up simple arithmetic.

Cheers,
Nick.

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