[Python-ideas] An even simpler customization of class creation

[Eric Snow]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> That leaves my one concern being the "namespace" keyword parameter.
> I'd started reconsidering that for PEP 422, and I think the argument
> holds at least as strongly for your improved design:
> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0422/#is-the-namespace-concept-worth-the-extra-complexity
>
> Since speed usually isn't a critical concern for class definitions,
> it's likely better to just make them ordered by default, which can be
> its own PEP, rather than being part of this one.

FWIW, Guido already told me a while back that OrderedDict by default
for class definition namespace was okay.  It's just been waiting on me
to get back to the C OrderedDict implementation (which I've started to
recently).

-eric