[Python-Dev] __subclasses__() return order
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com
Sun May 26 06:19:08 CEST 2013
On 2013-05-25 09:18, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> In http://bugs.python.org/issue17936, I proposed making tp_subclasses
> (the internal container implementing object.__subclasses__) a dict.
> This would make the return order of __subclasses__ completely
> undefined, while it is right now slightly predictable. I have never seen
> __subclasses__ actually used in production code, so I'm wondering
> whether someone might be affected by such a change.
I do use a package that does use __subclasses__ in production code, but the
order is unimportant.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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