[Python-Dev] Confirming status of new modules in 3.4 (original) (raw)

Nikolaus Rath Nikolaus at rath.org
Sat Mar 15 22:44:56 CET 2014

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

This downside of using subclassing as an API should be well known by now and widely warned against.

It wasn't known to me until now. Are these downsides described in some more detail somewhere?

So far I have always thought that, as long as I avoid using private attributes, subclassing was supported like any other use of the API.

Best, Nikolaus

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