[Python-Dev] bool does not want to be subclassed? (original) (raw)

Gerrit gerrit at nl.linux.org
Sat Feb 14 11:14:45 EST 2004


"Martin v. L=EF=BF=BDwis" wrote:

Tim Peters wrote: >I expect the easiest way out is for you to decide that type objects ar= e >immutable after all -- even if there are obscure ways to mutate them! =20 It's not at all obscure: =20 >>> class A(object):pass ... >>> type(A).name 'type' >>> A.foo =3D 1 >>> A.foo 1 =20 Look, Ma, I'm mutating a type! No, son, you are just modifying it.

Isn't this just modifying A.dict, where getattribute looks into to see whether something is defined? Or is that the same thing?

Gerrit.

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