[Python-3000] Reminder: Py3k PEPs due by April (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Tue Apr 10 21:23:22 CEST 2007

At 12:03 PM 4/10/2007 -0700, Brett Cannon wrote:

2. Remove file.init, code.init, and object.subclasses for security reasons.

The subclasses method is useful -- even more so in 3.x than in 2.x, because in 3.x there are no classic classes.

I was planning to make use of this in my generic function libraries to allow automatic checking for completeness and ambiguity of a ruleset, given the classes that are currently defined. Currently, this is limited by the inability to access classic classes' subclasses, but in 3.x subclasses is an ideal way to locate active classes.

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