[Python-Dev] innocent question ;-) (original) (raw)

Thomas Heller thomas.heller@ion-tof.com
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:29:03 +0200

... about my beloved buffer object:

Would a patch to make the buffer object subclassable be still accepted for 2.2, or does this fall under the feature freeze?

Another question: It is my understanding that makeing an object subclassable also exposes its constructor to Python.

What is the signature of this constructor? Is the three argument version xxx(name, bases, dict) always used to return a new type object (Don Beaudry hook), and can other signatures freely be used to creates objects/instances of this type/class?

Thomas