[Python-Dev] Multiple inheritance from builtin (C) types [still] supported in Python3?

[Greg Ewing]

Paul Sokolovsky wrote:

> Well, here it itches to ask if C++-like offsetting of subclass to base
> class "this" pointer was considered,

I suppose in theory it would be possible to build a new
set of __slot__ descriptors for the subclass. It mightn't
even be all that difficult. My guess would be that it
wasn't considered worth the effort, if it was considered
at all.

-- 
Greg