[Python-Dev] Third and hopefully final post: PEP 557, Data Classes

[Eric V. Smith]

On 11/29/2017 6:51 PM, Carl Meyer wrote:
> On 11/29/2017 03:26 PM, Eric V. Smith wrote:
>> I've posted a new version of PEP 557, it should soon be available at
>> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0557/.
>>
>> The only significant changes since the last version are:
>>
>> - changing the "compare" parameter to be "order", since that more
>> accurately reflects what it does.
>> - Having the combination of "eq=False" and "order=True" raise an
>> exception instead of silently changing eq to True.
>>
>> There were no other issues raised with the previous version of the PEP.
> 
> Not quite; I also raised the issue of isdataclass(ADataClass) returning
> False. I still think that's likely to be a cause of bug reports if left
> as-is.

Oops, sorry about that!

I think you're probably right. attr.has(), which is the equivalent attrs 
API, returns True for both classes and instances (although 
interestingly, the code only talks about it working on classes).

https://github.com/ericvsmith/dataclasses/issues/99

Eric.