[Python-ideas] issubclass(collections.OrderedDict, collections.Sequence)

[Ed Kellett]

On 9 October 2014 07:04, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
> Ed Kellett writes:
>
>  > You're missing the point. The use case for this ABC (or whatever?
>  > Shouldn't you be sure what a proposal is before shooting it down?)
>  > is knowing whether to do that test at all.
>
> No, I didn't miss that at all.  I just have a different point that I
> think is far more important.  I think you, random, and Ram are wasting
> a lot of your own time defending this idea in the terms you are using,
> and I'm trying to explain why I believe that.  I'll happily stop,
> right here, since I've been entirely unsuccessful so far.

I don't actually believe I have defended this idea once. I don't care
whether it is added to the stdlib - I just didn't want it to get shut
down because of a miscommunication, rather than because people didn't
think its uses were useful enough.


edk