[Python-Dev] subclasses() return order (original) (raw)
Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat May 25 15:26:58 CEST 2013
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On Sat, 25 May 2013 06:23:56 -0700 Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> > Hello, > > In http://bugs.python.org/issue17936, I proposed making tpsubclasses > (the internal container implementing object.subclasses) a dict. > This would make the return order of subclasses completely > undefined, while it is right now slightly predictable. I have never seen > subclasses actually used in production code, so I'm wondering > whether someone might be affected by such a change. > > Regards > Personally I never used it, but it's now explicitly documented as returning a list. Not sure what's the right thing to do here, but perhaps returning an OrderedDict can eliminate the order problem?
It would still return a list.
Regards
Antoine.
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