[Python-Dev] UserDict in 2.7 (original) (raw)

Fred Drake fdrake at acm.org
Tue Jun 22 14:40:29 CEST 2010


On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:

I had thought there was a conscious decision to not change any existing classes from old-style to new-style.

I thought so as well. Changing any class from old-style to new-style risks breaking applications in obscure & mysterious ways. (Yes, we've been bitten by this before; it's a real problem.)

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. "A storm broke loose in my mind." --Albert Einstein



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