[Python-3000] bytes & Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Sep 17 06:08:31 CEST 2007

Guido van Rossum wrote:

It is possible to compromise the integrity of a built-in type by subclassing it if the type wasn't carefully written to expect subclassing.

Disallowing subclassing in Python may make sense, but it seems unreasonable not to allow subclassing by consenting C code that is careful not to compromise any integrity.

Maybe there should be two flags for this instead of just one?

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