[Python-Dev] Preserving the definition order of class namespaces.

[Eric Snow]

On May 24, 2015 4:52 PM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 25 May 2015 07:26, "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote:
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> > On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >> If you still think that's not enough justification then we can table
__definition_order__ for now.
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> > Let's table it. It's hard to compare alternatives on a single dimension
of "which is a bigger change".

Sounds good.

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> Right, it isn't that I think __definition_order__ is necessarily a bad
idea, I just suspect it's redundant if we end up going ahead with
__init_subclass__ (which would allow a base class to opt in to preserving
the definition order, either of all fields or selected ones),
> and the latter change is definitely out of scope for 3.5 at this point.
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> There are also other open questions, like whether or not dir() should
respect the order when reporting attribute names, or if dict_proxy should
respect the order when iterating.

Yeah, I'll start up a thread on python-ideas once I've gotten the other
stuff wrapped up.  Thanks for the feedback.

-eric
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