[Python-Dev] UserDict in 2.7

Fred Drake fdrake at acm.org
Tue Jun 22 14:40:29 CEST 2010


On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Raymond Hettinger
<raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had thought there was a conscious decision to not change any existing
> classes from old-style to new-style.

I thought so as well.  Changing any class from old-style to new-style
risks breaking applications in obscure & mysterious ways.  (Yes, we've
been bitten by this before; it's a real problem.)


  -Fred

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