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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Sep 18 02:07:51 CEST 2007


Guido van Rossum wrote:

AFAIK there's nothing stopping you from subclassing in C.

That may be true -- I may have just incorrectly assumed that the flag would prevent subclassing from working properly in C as well.

I thought we were talking about Python though.

That may be true as well. I think I got mixed up with a discussion about adding an immutable bytes type as a builtin.

-- Greg



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