Can __iter__ be used as a classmethod?

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> it seems that the word 'inheritance' has been abused in this context:
> Is there a more correct word for this? 'meta-inheritance'? :)

I think what's being said is that the "is-a" relationship
is not transitive, i.e, isinstance(a, b) and isinstance(b, c)
does not imply insinstance(a, c).

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