[Python-Dev] PEP: Ordered Class Definition Namespace

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 00:27:35 EDT 2016


> On Jun 7, 2016, at 4:12 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> By the time decorators run, the original execution namespace is no
> longer available - the contents have been copied into the class dict,
> which will still be a plain dict (and there's a lot of code that calls
> PyDict_* APIs on tp_dict, so replacing the latter with a subclass is
> neither trivial nor particularly safe in the presence of extension
> modules).

That makes sense.

+1 all around.


Raymond


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