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

[Ethan Furman]

On 10/09/2014 05:49 AM, random832 at fastmail.us wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014, at 07:46, Ed Kellett wrote:
>> On 9 October 2014 07:04, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Same here, personally I think his use case would be better served by two
> functions, or by a flag that's passed in by the caller. There's no
> particular reason to _not_ want to do the unordered subset comparison on
> a list.

Well, my thanks to all three of you!  Between the back-and-forth a clear picture of what Ram wanted emerged, and that's 
a good thing.  :)

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~Ethan~